Sick Love · Red Hot Chili Peppers

69 bars, 3:42, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 10, and 12 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SICK LOVE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 65.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 57 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-61.

PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIKDFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sick Love?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sick Love hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Sick Love?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 65.

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