Charlie Brown · Coldplay

129 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-21, 23-28 and 44-49, and 6 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
CHARLIE BROWN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 85, 89, 93, 112 and 119.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
VERSE
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesDFS1S9G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Charlie Brown?

138 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 Charlie Brown hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Charlie Brown?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 85, 89, 93, 112 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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