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Sexo · Los Prisioneros

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove B -- Part B
80 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCWQSY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sexo on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-34, snare through bars 35-43, hi-hat through bars 44-61, snare through bars 62-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-15 and 17-22, and 9 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sexo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 23, 32, 34, 38, 50 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, W -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sexo?

144 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 Sexo hard to play on drums?

57 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sexo?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 23, 32, 34, 38, 50 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED