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Choosin' Texas · Ella Langley

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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INTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS4CS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Choosin' Texas on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 10-20 and 22-24, and 14 more places -- 69% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 36, 60, 68, 75, 83 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 4-25 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-87 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 9 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Choosin' Texas?

112 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 Choosin' Texas 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Choosin' Texas?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 36, 60, 68, 75, 83 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED