December 1963 (Oh What A Night) · Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 71-77 and 79-81, and 2 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
DECEMBER 1963 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 5 sections: 82 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is December 1963 (Oh What A Night)?

104 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 December 1963 (Oh What A Night) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →