Silent Night, Bodom Night · Children Of Bodom

94 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 37-39 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SILENT NIGHT, BODOM NIGHT · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 13 sections: 40 keep time, 24 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFJCHS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Night, Bodom Night?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Silent Night, Bodom Night hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Silent Night, Bodom Night?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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