A Sky Full Of Stars Ver2 · Coldplay

120 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, high tom and mid tom.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48 and 85-120 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
A SKY FULL OF STARS VER2 · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-120.

PART S1
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCES1S6B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Sky Full Of Stars Ver2?

127 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 A Sky Full Of Stars Ver2 hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, high tom and mid tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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