Last Christmas · Wham!

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 33 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
LAST CHRISTMAS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 48, 76, 88, 96 and 116.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-44.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Christmas?

108 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 hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 48, 76, 88, 96 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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