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In My Place · Coldplay

EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-10)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In My Place on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, ride through bars 39-47, silence through bars 48-54 and ride through bars 55-63.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx-----|
In My Place -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 16-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED