Shiver · Coldplay

97 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 117 BPM, 4:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-12, 21-27 and 42-45, and 1 more place -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
SHIVER · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 23 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 5-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 14-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 26 keep time, 29 are fills and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-27.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS10EMGA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shiver?

117 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Shiver hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shiver?

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 23 more.

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