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Stone Cold Bush · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFKARH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stone Cold Bush on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-68, toms through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11 and 15-17, and 7 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Stone Cold Bush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 30, 48, 52 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-30 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-98 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-49 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stone Cold Bush?

136 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 Stone Cold Bush hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stone Cold Bush?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 30, 48, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED