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The Greeting Song · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Greeting Song on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, ride through bars 61-68 and snare through bars 69-81, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x--x-x-x--|
The Greeting Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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