Bite Me · Avril Lavigne

113 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 20 and 22, and 6 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BITE ME · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 33, 37, 53, 62, 63 and 8 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
PART L
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCLIS1Q+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bite Me?

170 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 Bite Me hard to play on drums?

48 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bite Me?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 33, 37, 53, 62, 63 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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