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Colors · Flow
EXERCISE 27 OF 68
Run L1 · Part L (bars 21-32)
69 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colors on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-59, ride through bars 60-69, toms through bars 70-72, hi-hat through bars 73-79, kick and crashes through bars 80-82 and toms through bars 83-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-11 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-33 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-40 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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