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Silent Night · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 18 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
BREAK
PART S6
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesEAS6S3S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silent Night on drums

75 bars, 4:54, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
34/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-7, silence through bars 8-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-17, silence through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-61 and silence through bars 62-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 28-29 and 31-33, and 9 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 21, 41, 42, 53 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- E, C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-62 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Silent Night?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Silent Night hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 21, 41, 42, 53 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED