Mexicola · Queens Of The Stone Age

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24 and 94-108 -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
MEXICOLA · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 27 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 33 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART O
PART I
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIOES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mexicola?

108 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 Mexicola 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:54 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, 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 Mexicola?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Queens Of The Stone Age drum parts

EVERY QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →