Sexy Mexican Maid · Red Hot Chili Peppers

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-48, 54 and 61-75 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SEXY MEXICAN MAID · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 4 sections: 69 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-75.

PART A
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesIABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sexy Mexican Maid?

90 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 Sexy Mexican Maid 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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