Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree · Brenda Lee

72 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:02 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-26, 29-36 and 53-58, and 1 more place -- 63.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 142 BPM
ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 72
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 4 sections: 67 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree?

142 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 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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