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Whatever You Want · Status Quo

EXERCISE 6 OF 15
Groove E
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0 / 15 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whatever You Want on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45, silence through bars 46-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Whatever You Want -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED