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Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall · Coldplay

EXERCISE 10 OF 25
Groove E
58 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHBCFS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-28, hi-hat through bars 29-45, silence through bars 46-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28 -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 43, 44, 60, 64 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part S4 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 29-61 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall?

118 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 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall hard to play on drums?

50 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 43, 44, 60, 64 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED