In My Place · Coldplay

63 bars, 3:22, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 39-46 and 55-62 -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
IN MY PLACE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 8 sections: 49 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDABS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Place?

75 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 In My Place hard to play on drums?

57 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?

63 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in In My Place?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

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