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Last Christmas (for Cant Stop) · Wham!

EXERCISE 21 OF 22
Run B2 · Outro 2 (bars 97-122)
121 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Christmas (for Cant Stop) on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-122.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
HH |x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Last Christmas (for Cant Stop) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-57 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-100 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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