Adventure Of A Lifetime · Coldplay

48 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 48
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 2 sections: 40 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-47.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Adventure Of A Lifetime?

110 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 Adventure Of A Lifetime hard to play on drums?

36 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Adventure Of A Lifetime?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

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