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Color Your World · Devin Townsend

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Fill at bar 20
93 / 298 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART A
PART F
PART A
PART Y
BREAK
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesS17ALAS14AH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Color Your World on drums

298 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 10:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
10:30
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-50, toms through bars 51-58, snare through bars 59-70 and ride through bars 71-74, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 162, 166-168 and 171-177, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    166
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |g-----------g-----------g-----------x-----------g-----------g-----------|
SD |------------------------------------x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------------------------------------|
Color Your World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 40, 58, 103, 104, 105 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- AL -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Color Your World?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Color Your World hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

298 bars, about 10:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Color Your World?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 40, 58, 103, 104, 105 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 298 BARS ANALYSED