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Anything But Ordinary · AvriI Lavigne

Anything But Ordinary · AvriI Lavigne
EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 25 PASSED · 71 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCKS1S4S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anything But Ordinary on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-88, silence through bars 89-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-124.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Anything But Ordinary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 87-124 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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