Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want · Deftones

57 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 1:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 13, and 15 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 20, 30 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 2 sections: 40 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-29.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 20, 30 and 6 more.

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