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Readymade · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 10 OF 47
Groove I (a two-bar phrase)
55 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART O
PART T
PART T
PART X
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCTXOAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Readymade on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40, ride through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-14, and 6 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx----x-xx----|
Readymade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 7 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 -- B, S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-70 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Readymade?

76 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 Readymade hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Readymade?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED