Texas · Blake Shelton

74 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
TEXAS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 21 and 61.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 4 sections: 61 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-58.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Texas?

111 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 Texas hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Texas?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 21 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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