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Tippa My Tongue · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 11 OF 42
Groove I -- Outro
74 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART A, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tippa My Tongue on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
85/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, snare through bars 53-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-95.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----x---------|
Tippa My Tongue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-79 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 16-79 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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