Moses · Coldplay

84 bars, 5:10, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-11, 20-23 and 32-43, and 2 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 65 BPM
MOSES · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 7.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 1 is a fill and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-59.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesDS6FS2BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moses?

65 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 Moses hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Moses?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 7.

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