Tippa My Tongue · Red Hot Chili Peppers

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 11-14 and 16, and 4 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 89 BPM
TIPPA MY TONGUE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 44, 78 and 94.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-64.

CHORUS
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBADIL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tippa My Tongue?

89 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tippa My Tongue hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tippa My Tongue?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 44, 78 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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