The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie · Red Hot Chili Peppers

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 10-14 and 16-28, and 8 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
THE ADVENTURES OF RAIN DANCE MAGGIE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 29, 33, 37, 41, 57, 61 and 5 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 6 sections: 106 keep time and 11 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie?

107 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 The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 29, 33, 37, 41, 57, 61 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Red Hot Chili Peppers drum parts

EVERY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →