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Strip My Mind · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 22 OF 39
Join Part C to Chorus 2 (bars 35-37)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strip My Mind on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-38, ride through bars 39-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------------x--x-----------------|
Strip My Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 20, 26, 30, 38, 41 and 7 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-33 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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