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

December 1963 (Oh What A Night) · Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
EXERCISE 12 OF 19
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 36-38)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play December 1963 (Oh What A Night) on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-60, toms through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-91.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
December 1963 (Oh What A Night) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-78 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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