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Mexico · Alestorm

EXERCISE 27 OF 43
2-bar fill at bar 64
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0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHJPC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mexico on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-17, hi-hat through bars 18-28, ride through bars 29-45, hi-hat through bars 46-56 and ride through bars 57-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Mexico -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 44, 56, 64 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-35 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-67 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 65-88 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mexico?

130 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 Mexico hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mexico?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 44, 56, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED