Cruel Summer · Taylor Swift

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-27, 31-39 and 46-54 -- 68.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
CRUEL SUMMER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruel Summer?

84 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 Cruel Summer hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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