Parallel Universe · Red Hot Chili Peppers

140 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9 and 11-15, and 13 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
PARALLEL UNIVERSE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 10, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 31 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 9 sections: 92 keep time, 37 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGADXS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parallel Universe?

124 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 Parallel Universe hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

140 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 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 Parallel Universe?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 10, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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