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getaway car · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS1S6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play getaway car on drums

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

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37 and silence through bars 38-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
getaway car -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 56-74 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED