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Jingle Bell Rock · Bobby Helms

Jingle Bell Rock · Bobby Helms
EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove D -- Outro
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0 / 8 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jingle Bell Rock on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5 and snare through bars 6-62.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x---g-x---g-x---g-x---g-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Jingle Bell Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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