Anything But Ordinary · AvriI Lavigne

124 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 17-23 and 26-31, and 10 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 64, 72, 76 and 4 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCKS1S4S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anything But Ordinary?

123 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 Anything But Ordinary hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Anything But Ordinary?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 64, 72, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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