Texas · Chris Rea

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-35 and 40-87 -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TEXAS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 98.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 7 sections: 105 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-87.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesBGS1ECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Texas?

120 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 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Texas?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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