TAYLOR SWIFT - mike pornoy · Malakai

140 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-63, 66-68 and 70-71, and 9 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
TAYLOR SWIFT - MIKE PORNOY · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 33, 41, 56 and 30 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 17 sections: 80 keep time, 36 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
PART M
PART P
PART J
PART AA
CHORUS
PART AQ
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAIBJMAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TAYLOR SWIFT - mike pornoy?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is TAYLOR SWIFT - mike pornoy hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in TAYLOR SWIFT - mike pornoy?

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 33, 41, 56 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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