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Whatever Makes You Hate Me · Night Verses

EXERCISE 17 OF 74
Groove F
80 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLDAWS1AD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whatever Makes You Hate Me on drums

177 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-73, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x---x---x-|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x--xx----x-xxx-x|xx----x---x-x---|
Whatever Makes You Hate Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 36, 39 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Whatever Makes You Hate Me?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Whatever Makes You Hate Me hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Makes You Hate Me?

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 36, 39 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED