22 · Taylor Swift

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 57-70 and 83-98 -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
22 · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 26, 53 and 54.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-98.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
7 groovesGDCBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 22?

104 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 22 hard to play on drums?

55 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 22?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 26, 53 and 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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