Strip My Mind · Red Hot Chili Peppers

69 bars, 4:13, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 27-28 and 56-57 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
STRIP MY MIND · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 20, 26, 30, 38, 41 and 7 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 13 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strip My Mind?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Strip My Mind hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 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 Strip My Mind?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 20, 26, 30, 38, 41 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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