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Hot · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDHS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hot on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-36, ride through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-70, ride through bars 71-78 and silence through bars 79-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 30-35 and 64-69, and 6 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 29, 40, 63, 74, 93 and 2 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-90 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-74 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-99 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hot?

145 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 Hot hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Hot?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 29, 40, 63, 74, 93 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED