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Whataya Want From Me · Adam Lambert

Whataya Want From Me · Adam Lambert
EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Join Part B to Part F (bars 23-25)
69 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBFS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whataya Want From Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-28, snare through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-43, ride through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-51, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx-----|
Whataya Want From Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 43, 47, 51 and 8 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-32 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-79 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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