My Lovely Man · Red Hot Chili Peppers

131 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 11 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
MY LOVELY MAN · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 36, 66, 74 and 10 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 8 sections: 106 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-127.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGANPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Lovely Man?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lovely Man hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 My Lovely Man?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 36, 66, 74 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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