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What The Hell · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 4 OF 18
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 27-29)
107 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What The Hell on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-62, toms through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-92, toms through bars 93-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-132.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
What The Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 45-93 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED