Everybody Hurts · Avril Lavigne

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopPunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-35, 49 and 65-68, and 1 more place -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
EVERYBODY HURTS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 36 and 56.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFS1EG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everybody Hurts?

101 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 Everybody Hurts hard to play on drums?

44 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Everybody Hurts?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 36 and 56.

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