Torture Me · Red Hot Chili Peppers

117 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:41 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
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
TORTURE ME · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 38, 39, 56 and 13 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesBFGS1Q+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Torture Me?

127 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 Torture Me hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Torture Me?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 38, 39, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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