Whatever · Godsmack

102 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 11-13, and 10 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WHATEVER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 18 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 26 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFKTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whatever?

122 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 Whatever hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Whatever?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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