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Not Another Christmas Song · Blink-182

EXERCISE 8 OF 34
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 23-25)
48 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART G
PART B
PART M
PART N
PART S12
OUTRO
10 groovesDBGLM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Another Christmas Song on drums

100 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 37-44 -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-xx|xx--x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|--xx----x-------|
BD |------x---------|------x---------|
Not Another Christmas Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 29-48 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-72 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 83-93 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Another Christmas Song?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Not Another Christmas Song hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Not Another Christmas Song?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED