Snow (Hey Oh) · Red Hot Chili Peppers

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 49 and 51, and 20 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SNOW (HEY OH) · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 46 and 27 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 33 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART Q
PART R
8 groovesDRQBF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snow (Hey Oh)?

105 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 Snow (Hey Oh) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Snow (Hey Oh)?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 46 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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