Whatever It Takes · Imagine Dragons

109 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 34-39, and 5 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
WHATEVER IT TAKES · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 56.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFS1HS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whatever It Takes?

135 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 It Takes hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Whatever It Takes?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 56.

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