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Universally Speaking · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 18 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Universally Speaking on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, ride through bars 35-48, hi-hat through bars 49-76, ride through bars 77-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-23 and 25, and 21 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Universally Speaking -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 48, 82, 90, 92 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-49 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-94 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Universally Speaking?

115 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 Universally Speaking hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Universally Speaking?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 48, 82, 90, 92 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED