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Texas Chainsaw Massacre · Blood

EXERCISE 7 OF 48
Groove C -- Part C
64 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
PART R
PART M
CHORUS 2
8 groovesIMLAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Texas Chainsaw Massacre on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
89/100

ride through bars 1-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 32-34, and 5 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-------x---------------x-------x---|
BD |X-------x-------x-------X-------x-------x-------|
Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 81 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Chainsaw Massacre hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Chainsaw Massacre?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 81 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED