What The Hell · Avril Lavigne

132 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopPunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44, 73-88 and 109-132 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WHAT THE HELL · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 10 sections: 119 keep time, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-72.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesDCGFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What The Hell?

150 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 What The Hell 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.

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