Red House · Jimi Hendrix

62 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-36 -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
RED HOUSE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 4 sections: 36 keep time, 1 is a fill and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-36.

CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesDS4ES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red House?

100 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Red House hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Red House?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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