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Bois Lie · Avril Lavigne feat. Machine Gun Kelly

Bois Lie · Avril Lavigne feat. Machine Gun Kelly
EXERCISE 17 OF 46
Join Part G to Break 2 (bars 36-38)
58 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBDGKM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bois Lie on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, silence through bars 18-20, snare through bars 21-37 and silence through bars 38-40, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-24, and 10 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Bois Lie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 41, 45, 51 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-37 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-60 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-78 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bois Lie?

144 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 Bois Lie hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Bois Lie?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 41, 45, 51 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED