Daylight · Coldplay

181 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 21 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
DAYLIGHT · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 8 sections: 169 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-47.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Daylight?

132 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 Daylight hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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