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All I Want For Christmas Is You · Mariah Carey

EXERCISE 10 OF 21
Fill at bar 34 and 104 (a small one)
107 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All I Want For Christmas Is You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
7:01
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-121.

The beat

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.

    8
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
All I Want For Christmas Is You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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