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Everybody Hurts · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 14 OF 23
Groove G -- Part G
69 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFS1EG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody Hurts on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-36, ride through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-53, silence through bars 54-56 and ride through bars 57-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Everybody Hurts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-41 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 61-84 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED