Adventure Of A Lifetime · Coldplay

120 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-36, and 6 more places -- 71.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 57, 86, 87 and 95.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 6 sections: 99 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-119.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
5 groovesCIS1S5S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Adventure Of A Lifetime?

112 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Adventure Of A Lifetime?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 57, 86, 87 and 95.

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