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Torture Me · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 15 OF 46
Groove G -- Outro
74 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Torture Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-100, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |---x--x--x--x---|
BD |x----x-x--xx--x-|
Torture Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-61 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-59 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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