Little Drummer Boy · For King & Country

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-82 -- 62.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
LITTLE DRUMMER BOY · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 6 sections: 99 keep time and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-82.

PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFS2S4A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Drummer Boy?

104 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 Little Drummer Boy hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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