Colors · Flow

113 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 37-39 and 47, and 4 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
COLORS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 28, 29 and 27 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 58 keep time, 33 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART X
PART Z
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGCZLI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Colors?

136 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?

57 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Colors?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 28, 29 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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