Throw Away Your Television · Red Hot Chili Peppers

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 11, and 10 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THROW AWAY YOUR TELEVISION · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 68, 75, 84 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 6 sections: 93 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-39.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Throw Away Your Television?

120 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 Throw Away Your Television hard to play on drums?

73 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 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 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 Throw Away Your Television?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 68, 75, 84 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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