sir pyscho sexy · Red Hot Chili Peppers

158 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 8:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 7 and 9, and 16 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 79 BPM
SIR PYSCHO SEXY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 40, 48, 56 and 30 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 13 sections: 109 keep time, 36 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART Y
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAYRHM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sir pyscho sexy?

79 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 sir pyscho sexy hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 8:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 sir pyscho sexy?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 40, 48, 56 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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