Look Around · Red Hot Chili Peppers

94 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 10 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
LOOK AROUND · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 5, 25, 45, 46, 47 and 6 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 45-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFZABHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Look Around?

114 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 Look Around hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Look Around?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 5, 25, 45, 46, 47 and 6 more.

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