Last Christmas (for Cant Stop) · Wham!

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 40, and 30 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
LAST CHRISTMAS (FOR CANT STOP) · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 33, 41 and 81.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 4 sections: 114 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-80.

PART C
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Christmas (for Cant Stop)?

107 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 Last Christmas (for Cant Stop) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Last Christmas (for Cant Stop)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 33, 41 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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