A Rush Of Blood To The Head · Coldplay

78 bars, 4:39, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-78 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 67 BPM
A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 2 sections: 74 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-78.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Rush Of Blood To The Head?

67 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 A Rush Of Blood To The Head hard to play on drums?

35 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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