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Moses · Coldplay

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesDS6FS2BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moses on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-7, ride through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-31, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Moses -- 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 7.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED