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Texas Is Forever · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 12 OF 77
Groove D -- Part D
73 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART D, OUTRO 2
PART S2
PART E
PART D
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesQENAJG+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Texas Is Forever on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28 and ride through bars 29-32, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Texas Is Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-191 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 7-44 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-61 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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