How To Play The Drum Beat From "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift

Love this, one of the most instantly recognizable and memorable drum beats of recent years!
Also, IMO a great little pop song with a positive message.
Thanks so much for watching, have fun please let me know if any questions, cheers
Mike :)
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[@Lochness19]

Taylor talked about this song in a presentation she gave when she was campaigning for the Grammys. I think she wanted a bit of an off kilter drum beat, since she told one of her producers that she wanted this to be the song where if it would play at a wedding, the shy girl's friends would tell her "come on, you have to at least dance to this song!", so it's like that song that the awkward girl could dance to without having to dance in sync with whatever the other people are doing and just do her own thing? Anyways, it seems like it was Johan Schuster (aka Shellback) who was the one who came up with the beat, he was a drummer in indie rock and death metal bands before becoming a pop producer.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Interesting stuff, cheers Nicolas!

[@nigeve01]

There are a lot of good drummers on KZbin. But for my money your tutorials are easily the best 🙏

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers!

[@TheArtois1]

cheers mate - beginner drummer here around 15hours under my belt and found this tutorial extremely helpful thank you!

[@mar89ts]

I learned this in an hour and i love it, thank you! really helpful!

[@chazerlad1012]

Epic drum beat

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Yeah man!

[@jamesthedrummer4423]

Nice Job!! Always been curious about this drum beat. Your fan from England 😆 👍🏼

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Ah cool man, thanks for watching!

[@jamesthedrummer4423]

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[@DrumAudioEditing]

Awesome lesson man, keep them coming 🤘

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Thanks man!

[@fbiopenup120]

Love this Drum Intro,Great vid!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Fbi Open up I know solid gold!

[@matt1317]

Mate, this was a great lesson. Thanks so much!!!

[@ricebum8808]

Yo mike, great vid as always. I know you’ve done an improv lesson for trinity grade 4 but could you possibly make a vid on improvisation in general? Thanks again ❤️

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Hi man, yes lots more on this coming up - stay tuned. A good place to start would be my course about creating your own drum fills! - kzbin.info/aero/PLcfoni8UPb9opFnGubPIthJTQm5jKFrVU

[@ricebum8808]

Cheers 👍

[@perro0076]

Nice one!!! I still had to slow it down to 75%, but got there in the end

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cool, thanks for watching.

[@zomuana1604]

Helpful .. great

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bawng pa Cheers! 👊🏻

[@keithmoon3190]

Sounds also like happy by Pharrell Williams

[@leogomes2276]

Nice one

[@crasynt]

Nice

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🤘

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Hype if you are excited for the new studio

[@hi12235]

Nice vid again?