Para Mexer · Not Animals As Leaders

114 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71-74 and 77-78 -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
PARA MEXER · BARS 71-72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 94 more.

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 3 sections: 9 keep time, 100 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-107.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAMBCCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Para Mexer?

115 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 Para Mexer hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 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 Para Mexer?

6 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 94 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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