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What Do You Want From Me · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove E -- Part E
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0 / 34 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Do You Want From Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and ride through bars 62-110.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
What Do You Want From Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 9 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 -- E, F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-30 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-54 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED