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Sexy Mexican Maid · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 15 OF 16
Run I1 · Outro 2 (bars 35-75)
74 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesIABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sexy Mexican Maid on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x---------x--x--|
Sexy Mexican Maid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-49 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-21 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED