We Turn Red · Red Hot Chili Peppers

136 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 19 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
WE TURN RED · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 5 sections: 127 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-116.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Turn Red?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is We Turn Red hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 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.

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