Our Song · Taylor Swift

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-22, 24 and 34-42, and 4 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
OUR SONG · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 23, 25, 29, 33, 47 and 5 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-46.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesHDKBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Our Song?

89 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 Our Song hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Our Song?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 23, 25, 29, 33, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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