All Too Well · Taylor Swift

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 18 more places -- 79.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
ALL TOO WELL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 70 and 115.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 2 sections: 105 keep time, 3 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-63.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Too Well?

98 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 All Too Well hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 All Too Well?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 70 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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