My Friends · Red Hot Chili Peppers

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-19, 28-33 and 50-55, and 1 more place -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
MY FRIENDS · BARS 16-17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 37, 41, 43, 44, 45 and 6 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 43-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1REFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Friends?

84 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 My Friends hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 My Friends?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 37, 41, 43, 44, 45 and 6 more.

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