Better Than Revenge · Taylor Swift

129 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 27-34 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BETTER THAN REVENGE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 24, 25, 26, 63, 80 and 16 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 22 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-23.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFDJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Than Revenge?

146 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 Better Than Revenge hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Better Than Revenge?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 24, 25, 26, 63, 80 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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