Shake It Off · Taylor Swift

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopCountry / Folk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 62 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SHAKE IT OFF · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 5 sections: 131 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-101.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shake It Off?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shake It Off hard to play on drums?

32 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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