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Quixoticelixer · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove I -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Quixoticelixer on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-52, silence through bars 53-55, hi-hat through bars 56-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-64 and ride through bars 65-117.

The beat

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.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----xg-g-g--xg-g|-g--xg-g-g--x--g|
BD |x--x----x--x----|x--x----x--x-x-x|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Quixoticelixer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-53 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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