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Better Than Revenge · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 19 OF 47
Groove N
91 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART O
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFDJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Than Revenge on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-78, toms through bars 79-81, hi-hat through bars 82-87, toms through bars 88-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Better Than Revenge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-50 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 58-82 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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