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Charlie Brown · Coldplay

EXERCISE 20 OF 26
Join Part J to Break (bars 96-98)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
VERSE
PART J
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesDFS1S9G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Charlie Brown on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-42, ride through bars 43-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-67 and ride through bars 68-81, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Charlie Brown -- 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 85, 89, 93, 112 and 119.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-72 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-97 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 96-113 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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