getaway car · Taylor Swift

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-25 and 28-37, and 4 more places -- 65.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
GETAWAY CAR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS1S6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is getaway car?

86 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 getaway car hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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