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.

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

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

154

LENGTH

4:24

DIFFICULTY

61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-92, ride through bars 93-94, hi-hat through bars 95-102 and silence through bars 103-104, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.