Otherside · Red Hot Chili Peppers

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.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
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 · 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?

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 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?

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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