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sir pyscho sexy · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 8 OF 71
Groove E
82 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sir pyscho sexy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-109, ride through bars 110-156 and kick and crashes through bars 157-158.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- A, Y -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 27-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-86 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-110 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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