Whatever · Yen Jaydes

66 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-9 and 11-13, and 4 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
WHATEVER · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 66.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 2 sections: 60 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-58.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whatever?

200 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 hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 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?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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