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A Sky Full Of Stars Ver2 · Coldplay

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Sky Full Of Stars Ver2 on drums

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

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
29/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, silence through bars 29-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52 and silence through bars 53-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x-------|
T1 |-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx|
T2 |x---x---x---x---|
A Sky Full Of Stars Ver2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-120 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED