White Braids & Pillow Chair · Red Hot Chili Peppers

98 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-96 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
WHITE BRAIDS & PILLOW CHAIR · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 20, 21, 33, 45, 49 and 3 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-96.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHOCFB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Braids & Pillow Chair?

111 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 White Braids & Pillow Chair hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 White Braids & Pillow Chair?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 20, 21, 33, 45, 49 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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