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You Belong With Me · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 27 OF 37
Join Part C to Part T (bars 85-87)
77 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART T
CHORUS
PART C
PART C
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACS7TMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Belong With Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-62, snare through bars 63-86, toms through bars 87-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-101, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
You Belong With Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-55 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-120 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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