The Story Of Us · Taylor Swift

154 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 43-48 and 51-53, and 7 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE STORY OF US · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 42, 49, 50 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 9 sections: 124 keep time, 17 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-76.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesHDAS6S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Story Of Us?

140 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 The Story Of Us hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 The Story Of Us?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 42, 49, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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