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Colors · Black Pumas

EXERCISE 28 OF 33
Run K1 · Part K (bars 68-72)
75 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBECS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colors on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-67, ride through bars 68-72, hi-hat through bars 73-85 and kick and crashes through bars 86-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 34-36 and 39, and 5 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Colors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 56, 64, 72, 84, 85, 86 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-39 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-73 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Colors?

90 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 Colors hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Colors?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 56, 64, 72, 84, 85, 86 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED