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Spies · Coldplay

EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
57 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 70 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spies on drums

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

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-13 and ride through bars 14-70.

The beat

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.

    22
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |---x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-x--x---x-x---x-x------|
Spies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-33 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED