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Exactly What You Wanted · Helmet

EXERCISE 3 OF 31
Groove A -- Part A
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PART B
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFABHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Exactly What You Wanted on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46, snare through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and snare through bars 57-64.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-xx---x--xx-x--|
Exactly What You Wanted -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-29 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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