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Lover · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 13 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAS5BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lover on drums

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

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
30/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42 and silence through bars 43-62.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |------x-----------------|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|
Lover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-42 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED