Exactly What You Wanted · Helmet

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 47-53 and 56-58, and 1 more place -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 41, 42, 46 and 4 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 6 sections: 45 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-21.

PART B
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFABHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exactly What You Wanted?

98 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 Exactly What You Wanted hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Exactly What You Wanted?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 41, 42, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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