Fix You · Coldplay

37 bars, 2:11, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
37
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 3 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
FIX YOU · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 20.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

37 bars across 3 sections: 29 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-36.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fix You?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fix You hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

37 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fix You?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 20.

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