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Adventure Of A Lifetime · Coldplay

EXERCISE 3 OF 14
Groove E
80 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
COUNT-IN
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
5 groovesCIS1S5S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Adventure Of A Lifetime on drums

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

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-61, kick and crashes through bars 62-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Adventure Of A Lifetime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 37-88 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED