Ночь Рождества · RBC MUSIC

130 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 4:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 42, and 15 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
НОЧЬ РОЖДЕСТВА · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 57, 61 and 14 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 19 sections: 62 keep time, 20 are fills, 4 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-27.

BREAK
PART H
PART J
PART H
CHORUS
PART O
PART S15
CHORUS 3
12 groovesEHOS15F+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ночь Рождества?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ночь Рождества hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ночь Рождества?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 57, 61 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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