TAYLOR SWIFT · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-22, 26-40 and 44-64, and 4 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
9:35
DIFFICULTY
44/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 93 BPM
ALL TOO WELL (10 MINUTE VERSION) · BAR 5

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 24 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 44 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 70 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 70, 81 and 93 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does All Too Well (10 Minute Version) use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 93 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 49.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-22, 26-40, 44-64 and 68-97, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in All Too Well (10 Minute Version) hard?

24 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED