Politik · Coldplay

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 26-37 and 54-61 -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
POLITIK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 87.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-86.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCGS3D+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Politik?

86 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Politik hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Politik?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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