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Bite Me · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 30 OF 47
Hold Groove L for 8 bars -- Part L (bars 74-81)
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0 / 47 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bite Me on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-28, snare through bars 29-45, hi-hat through bars 46-63, toms through bars 64-65 and snare through bars 66-81, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Bite Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-48 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-73 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-91 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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