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Under The Bridge · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 20 OF 27
Fill at bar 54 (a small one)
64 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Under The Bridge on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46 and ride through bars 47-71.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-g-X-g-X-g-X-g-|X-g-X-g-X-g-X-o-|
SD |----r---r---r---|r---r---r---r---|
BD |--x---x-x-------|X-----x-x-------|
Under The Bridge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED