Knock Me Down · Red Hot Chili Peppers

117 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-11, 16 and 18-19, and 2 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
KNOCK ME DOWN · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 29, 37 and 15 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 85 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-111.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART K
PART V
OUTRO
5 groovesJEVKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knock Me Down?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Knock Me Down hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Knock Me Down?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 29, 37 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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