Talk · Coldplay

147 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

147

LENGTH

4:54

DIFFICULTY

67/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-100, snare through bars 101-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-147.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 41-43, and 15 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxo|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-x---x---x-----|

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 120, 132, 140 and 146.

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 59-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.