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Para Mexer · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
11-bar fill at bar 53
73 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAMBCCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Para Mexer on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-7, ride through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-20 and toms through bars 21-23, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    71               72
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---Xx--x---X--x|g---X---x--x----|
HH |o---------------|----------------|
SD |-gg-X--g-gg-Xg--|-gg-Xgg--gg-Xgg-|
BD |x--x-x-----x---x|---x---xx--x---x|
Para Mexer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- BC -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BY, BZ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 63 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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