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Soul To Squeeze · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Groove K -- Outro 2
77 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soul To Squeeze on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-105.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|x-------x-----x-|
Soul To Squeeze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-97 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-61 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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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