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Colour · Pineapple Express
EXERCISE 24 OF 67
Groove I -- Part I
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PART C
PART F
PART I
PART M
PART Q
PART F
PART I
PART M
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS14FMAMQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colour on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-22, toms through bars 23-27, snare through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and snare through bars 35-44, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-19, 45-51 and 132-134 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |---x--x--x-x--x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Colour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 32 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-15 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-18 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Colour?

150 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 Colour hard to play on drums?

56 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Colour?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED