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Mexicola · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 29 OF 45
Join Part O to Part E (bars 64-66)
112 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART O
PART E
PART I
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIOES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mexicola on drums

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.

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
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 27 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-66 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-97 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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