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White Braids & Pillow Chair · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 14 OF 33
2-bar fill at bar 20
86 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Braids & Pillow Chair on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-37, hi-hat through bars 38-49, ride through bars 50-63 and toms through bars 64-67, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
White Braids & Pillow Chair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-40 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-68 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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