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All Too Well · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Too Well on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-16 and ride through bars 17-124.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
HF |------x-------x-|
All Too Well -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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