Christmas Kids · Roar

82 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-25, and 2 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
CHRISTMAS KIDS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 30 and 38.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 4 are fills, 16 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

CHORUS
PART H
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEHBOS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Christmas Kids?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Kids 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?

82 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Kids?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 30 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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