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Colours · Grouplove
EXERCISE 7 OF 43
Fill at bar 13
40 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO
11 groovesLAAAFCI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colours on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, snare through bars 22-30, silence through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-37 and snare through bars 38-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 38-40 and 50-52, and 2 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----xx--------x-----xx|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Colours -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 45, 49, 57, 73 and 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- L, AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S5 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Colours?

120 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 Colours hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Colours?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 45, 49, 57, 73 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED