Down To Mexico · Paul Gilbert

120 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 20 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
DOWN TO MEXICO · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 106 and 119.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-89.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIKEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down To Mexico?

132 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 Down To Mexico hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Down To Mexico?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 106 and 119.

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