Spies · Coldplay

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-29, 46-60 and 62-69 -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
SPIES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 61.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 5 sections: 52 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-45.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spies?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Spies hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 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 Spies?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 61.

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