Long Live · Taylor Swift

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 and 9-24 -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
LONG LIVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 58, 66, 74, 84, 89, 90 and 9 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 98 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART R
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesJFACR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Live?

102 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 Long Live 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Long Live?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 58, 66, 74, 84, 89, 90 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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