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22 · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 16 OF 28
Run C2 · Part C (bars 31-45)
92 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 22 on drums

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

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, snare through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-27 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-74 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 71-81 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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