Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers (SIMPLIFIED) · Misc Covers

128 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30 and 37-38, and 6 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 · 117 BPM
OTHERSIDE BY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (SIMPLIFIED) · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 47, 51, 58, 61, 68, 69 and 12 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 10 sections: 81 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-34.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART I
PART E
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesPDBIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers (SIMPLIFIED)?

117 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 Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers (SIMPLIFIED) 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers (SIMPLIFIED)?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 47, 51, 58, 61, 68, 69 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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