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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree · Brenda Lee

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree on drums

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

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-58 and snare through bars 59-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-56 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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