Christmas Canon Rock · Trans-Siberian Orchestra

138 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 58 BPM, 4:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-31, 33-47 and 81-95, and 4 more places -- 64.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 58 BPM
CHRISTMAS CANON ROCK · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 80, 96, 120, 128 and 2 more.

LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 8 are fills, 35 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-72.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
6 groovesCGS1S2S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Christmas Canon Rock?

58 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Christmas Canon Rock hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Christmas Canon Rock?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 80, 96, 120, 128 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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