High Speed · Coldplay

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 19 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HIGH SPEED · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 28, 38, 52 and 56.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 6 sections: 54 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-50.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Speed?

80 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 High Speed hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 32 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 High Speed?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 28, 38, 52 and 56.

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