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Sick Love · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Groove K -- Part K
16 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sick Love on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-37, ride through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-69.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx-----|
Sick Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED