Texas Is Forever · Pierce The Veil

197 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-12 and 17-23, and 6 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 228 BPM
TEXAS IS FOREVER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 24, 29, 30 and 24 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 27 sections: 83 keep time, 30 are fills, 45 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART E
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
16 groovesQENAJG+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Texas Is Forever?

228 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Texas Is Forever hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Texas Is Forever?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 24, 29, 30 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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