Paradise · Coldplay

75 bars, 4:07, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15-16, and 14 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
PARADISE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-26.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCS1FS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradise?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Paradise hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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