Tequila Sunrise · Cypress Hill, Barron Ricks

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 34-62 and 64-71, and 1 more place -- 94% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TEQUILA SUNRISE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 4 sections: 83 keep time and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-71.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tequila Sunrise?

100 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 Tequila Sunrise hard to play on drums?

45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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