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Christmas Kids · Roar

EXERCISE 28 OF 29
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 65-67)
79 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Christmas Kids on drums

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.

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
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-25, toms through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-55 and toms through bars 56-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Christmas Kids -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-31 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-67 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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