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Paradise · Coldplay

EXERCISE 6 OF 13
Run C1 · Part C (bars 31-40)
49 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paradise on drums

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

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-56, silence through bars 57-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-75.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-o---x-g-x-xx|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-----------|
Paradise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-38 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-51 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED