The Greeting Song · Red Hot Chili Peppers

109 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
THE GREETING SONG · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 16 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 77-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 7 sections: 77 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Greeting Song?

134 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 Greeting Song hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Greeting Song?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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