Red (Guitar Solo from The Red Tour) · Taylor Swift

137 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-33, 35 and 61-65, and 7 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RED (GUITAR SOLO FROM THE RED TOUR) · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 43, 44, 52, 60, 68, 92 and 13 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 20 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-111.

PART B
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGEOMW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red (Guitar Solo from The Red Tour)?

125 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 Red (Guitar Solo from The Red Tour) hard to play on drums?

58 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Red (Guitar Solo from The Red Tour)?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 43, 44, 52, 60, 68, 92 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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