All I Want For Christmas Is You · Mariah Carey

121 bars, 7:01, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
7:01
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-21, 23-29 and 31-33, and 17 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 69 BPM
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 34, 54, 70 and 6 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 3 sections: 78 keep time, 12 are fills, 26 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All I Want For Christmas Is You?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is All I Want For Christmas Is You hard to play on drums?

57 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 7:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 All I Want For Christmas Is You?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 34, 54, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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