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High Speed · Coldplay

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High Speed on drums

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

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|
BD |x----------x----|
High Speed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 23-58 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED