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Christmas Canon Rock · Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Christmas Canon Rock · Trans-Siberian Orchestra
EXERCISE 7 OF 25
Fill at bar 32 and 128 (a small one)
80 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
6 groovesCGS1S2S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Christmas Canon Rock on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-47, hi-hat through bars 48-80 and ride through bars 81-138.

The beat

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.

    17       18
    1e+a2e+a 1e+a2e+a
CC |x-------|--------|
RD |--x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---|----x---|
BD |x-----x-|x-------|
Christmas Canon Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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