All i want for christmas · Vhs

119 bars, 7:56, at 60 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.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 33-47, and 24 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 28 and 15 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 4 sections: 46 keep time, 21 are fills and 49 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-68.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All i want for christmas?

60 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 hard to play on drums?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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