Texas Flood · Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

78 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 5:20 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-16 and 18-28, and 2 more places -- 88.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
TEXAS FLOOD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 17, 29 and 41.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 2 sections: 49 keep time, 4 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-53.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Texas Flood?

87 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Flood hard to play on drums?

27 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flood?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 17, 29 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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