Blank Space · Taylor Swift

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat and snare.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
19/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-24, 27-32 and 53-58, and 3 more places -- 59.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BLANK SPACE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 4 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-33.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesBES1FS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blank Space?

96 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 Blank Space hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat and snare. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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