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skater boy · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 20 OF 27
Join Chorus 4 to Outro (bars 97-99)
111 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play skater boy on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-111 and snare through bars 112-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 26-33 and 52-59, and 6 more places -- 50.8% 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---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
skater boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 35, 60, 74 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-75 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is skater boy?

146 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 skater boy hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 skater boy?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 35, 60, 74 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED