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EXERCISE 18 OF 31
Run F1 · Part F (bars 57-60)
110 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All i want for christmas on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-91, snare through bars 92-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-119.

The beat

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.

    69
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----x-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x---x-------|
All i want for christmas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-68 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-95 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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