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Texas Flood

Stevie Ray Vaughan · 1983

A slow 12/8 blues, a staple for triplet feel and expressive dynamics.

Artist
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Year
1983
Genre
blues
Drummer
Chris Layton
Tempo
60 bpm
Time
12/8
Feel
slow blues 12/8
Difficulty
intermediate

Drummer's Quick-Start

Practice tempos

Woodshed
36bpm
Building
48bpm
Target
60bpm

The feel

A slow blues 12/8 in 12/8 around 60 BPM. It's slow — the space between hits is the hard part; keep the pulse dead steady and resist filling gaps.

What to watch

  • •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.

How to learn it

Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.

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