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Texas Sun · Khruangbin

EXERCISE 3 OF 17
Groove B -- Part B
77 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART B
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFDS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Texas Sun on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 37-44 and 49-51, and 5 more places -- 70.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Texas Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Texas Sun?

114 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Sun hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED