Mean · Taylor Swift

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 37-53 and 69-78 -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
MEAN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 79.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mean?

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 Mean hard to play on drums?

53 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mean?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 79.

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