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Politik · Coldplay

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Politik on drums

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

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
18/100

snare through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-37, silence through bars 38-39, ride through bars 40-41 and silence through bars 42-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Politik -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-54 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 44-88 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

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