Jingle Bell Rock · Bobby Helms

62 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-25, 28-49 and 52-61 -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
JINGLE BELL ROCK · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 51.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 3 sections: 52 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-49.

OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jingle Bell Rock?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Jingle Bell Rock hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Jingle Bell Rock?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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