Under The Bridge · Red Hot Chili Peppers

71 bars, 4:07, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 28 and 32, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 69 BPM
UNDER THE BRIDGE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 52, 54, 58, 66 and 70.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 4 sections: 56 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-45.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under The Bridge?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Under The Bridge hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Under The Bridge?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 52, 54, 58, 66 and 70.

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