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

EXERCISE 20 OF 65
Run M1 · Part M (bars 39-50)
87 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red (Guitar Solo from The Red Tour) on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Red (Guitar Solo from The Red Tour) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-61 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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