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God Put A Smile Upon Your Face · Coldplay

EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove C
82 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBFS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Put A Smile Upon Your Face on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, ride through bars 69-85 and silence through bars 86-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44, 69-84 and 101-116 -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |----------x---x-|
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 68 and 100.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 29-104 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is God Put A Smile Upon Your Face?

127 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 God Put A Smile Upon Your Face 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in God Put A Smile Upon Your Face?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 68 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED