Whatever You Want · Status Quo

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 22-24, and 7 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHATEVER YOU WANT · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-30.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesCFS5S1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whatever You Want?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 You Want hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 You Want?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

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