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Silent Night, Bodom Night · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 26 OF 58
Join Chorus 2 to Part C (bars 39-41)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART C
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silent Night, Bodom Night on drums

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.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and ride through bars 41-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Silent Night, Bodom Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-21 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-41 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-57 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

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