Quixoticelixer · Red Hot Chili Peppers

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-67, 69-70 and 73-75, and 9 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
QUIXOTICELIXER · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 44, 62, 72, 80, 88, 96 and 4 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 86 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

PART B
PART D
PART B
PART D
PART H
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIBDLH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quixoticelixer?

92 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 Quixoticelixer hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Quixoticelixer?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 44, 62, 72, 80, 88, 96 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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