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Whatever It Takes · Imagine Dragons

EXERCISE 15 OF 19
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 70-72)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART S7
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFS1HS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whatever It Takes on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-73, silence through bars 74-80, hi-hat through bars 81-92, silence through bars 93-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-109.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Whatever It Takes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-94 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED