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Texas Flood · Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Texas Flood on drums

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.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
27/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-53 and silence through bars 54-78.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|
Texas Flood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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