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Tell Me Baby · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 44-46)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell Me Baby on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44, 66-81 and 91-106 -- 48% 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 |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x-x-xx--x-|
HF |g---g---g---g---|
Tell Me Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 45, 61, 65 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 44-86 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tell Me Baby?

108 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 Tell Me Baby hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tell Me Baby?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 45, 61, 65 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED