Christmas Eve - Sarajevo: 12/24 · Savatage/Trans-Siberian Orchestra

29 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 1:51 of playing on crash, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
29
LENGTH
1:51
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 7-8 and 10 -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
CHRISTMAS EVE - SARAJEVO: 12/24 · BARS 4-5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 1 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 5 sections: 13 keep time, 7 are fills, 7 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesS5DNCS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Christmas Eve - Sarajevo: 12/24?

82 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Christmas Eve - Sarajevo: 12/24 hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

29 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Christmas Eve - Sarajevo: 12/24?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 29 BARS ANALYSED
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