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Stadium Arcadium · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART K
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDOKS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stadium Arcadium on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-63, ride through bars 64-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-84 and toms through bars 85-96, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-23, 42-63 and 110-115 -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |g-----xg-g--x--g|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Stadium Arcadium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 32, 34, 36, 40, 64 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-44 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-85 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-97 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-119 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stadium Arcadium?

111 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 Stadium Arcadium hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Stadium Arcadium?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 32, 34, 36, 40, 64 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED