What Do You Want From Me · Pink Floyd

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 21-22 and 24, and 27 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 9 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 15 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Do You Want From Me?

108 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 What Do You Want From Me hard to play on drums?

46 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in What Do You Want From Me?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 9 more.

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