You Belong With Me · Taylor Swift

120 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-20 and 22, and 7 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
YOU BELONG WITH ME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 54, 61, 62 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 16 are fills, 42 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACS7TMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Belong With Me?

130 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 You Belong With Me hard to play on drums?

54 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 You Belong With Me?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 54, 61, 62 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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