Whataya Want From Me · Adam Lambert

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 34 and 36-38, and 7 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
WHATAYA WANT FROM ME · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 43, 47, 51 and 8 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBFS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whataya Want From Me?

93 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 Whataya Want From Me hard to play on drums?

57 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Whataya Want From Me?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 43, 47, 51 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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