Elizabeth Taylor · Taylor Swift

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14, 16-22 and 36, and 3 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
ELIZABETH TAYLOR · BARS 16-17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 23.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-45.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elizabeth Taylor?

82 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 Elizabeth Taylor hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Elizabeth Taylor?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 23.

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