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Walkabout - RHCP · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 29 OF 38
Run L3 · Part L (bars 88-99)
107 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesJLYDS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walkabout - RHCP on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-32, 38-52 and 58-64, and 3 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--g|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Walkabout - RHCP -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-14 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-17 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-72 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walkabout - RHCP?

92 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 Walkabout - RHCP hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Walkabout - RHCP?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED