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Look Around · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 15 OF 42
Groove K
71 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Look Around on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-94.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
HH |o-o---o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----xg-g----xg-g|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Look Around -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-29 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED