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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

108

LENGTH

3:36

DIFFICULTY

73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, toms through bars 53-76, ride through bars 77-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-108.

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |-g----------x-gg|
T1 |x--xx-----------|
T2 |x-----x--x------|
FT |----------x-x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 5-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.