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Under the Bridge

Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1991

Sensitive dynamic playing with a tasteful groove for feel and restraint.

Artist
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Year
1991
Genre
alt-rock
Drummer
Chad Smith
Tempo
84 bpm
Time
4/4
Feel
laid-back straight 8ths
Difficulty
intermediate

Drummer's Quick-Start

Practice tempos

Woodshed
50bpm
Building
68bpm
Target
84bpm

The feel

A laid-back straight 8ths in 4/4 around 84 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.

What to watch

  • •Sit just behind the beat and let it breathe; don't chase the click forward.

How to learn it

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