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Complicated · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Groove E
54 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Complicated on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-27, 42-48 and 62-68, and 3 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-ox--|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x--x--|
Complicated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 29, 37, 61, 69, 71 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 27-58 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-62 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Complicated?

78 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 Complicated 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?

77 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Complicated?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 29, 37, 61, 69, 71 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED