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Snow (Hey Oh) · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 7 OF 64
Groove D -- Chorus
47 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snow (Hey Oh) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, toms through bars 41-46, ride through bars 47-62, hi-hat through bars 63-82 and toms through bars 83-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
RD |--X-X-X-X-X-X-X-|
SD |xg--x---xg--x---|
BD |X--x--x----x--x-|
Snow (Hey Oh) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-63 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-22 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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