Soul To Squeeze · Red Hot Chili Peppers

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 14 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SOUL TO SQUEEZE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 56, 64, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 82 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-87.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul To Squeeze?

88 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 Soul To Squeeze hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Soul To Squeeze?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 56, 64, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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