Lover · Taylor Swift

62 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 102 BPM, 3:38 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12 and 21-30 -- 52.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
LOVER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 5 sections: 36 keep time and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAS5BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lover?

102 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Lover hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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