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

EXERCISE 19 OF 46
Join Part I to Part D (bars 46-48)
87 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART D
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART I
PART D
PART E
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesPDBIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers (SIMPLIFIED) on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-87, toms through bars 88-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-128.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x--g|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers (SIMPLIFIED) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-52 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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