The Scientist by Coldplay · For Jamshella

50 bars, 2:44, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-29 and 31-50 -- 95.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 73 BPM
THE SCIENTIST BY COLDPLAY · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 2 sections: 45 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-50.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Scientist by Coldplay?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Scientist by Coldplay hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Scientist by Coldplay?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

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