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This Is The Place · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 26 OF 27
Fill at bar 117
117 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIS5DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is The Place on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-60 and snare through bars 61-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 8 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
This Is The Place -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 52, 60, 68, 92, 100 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is This Is The Place?

114 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 This Is The Place hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 This Is The Place?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 52, 60, 68, 92, 100 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED