Yellow · Coldplay

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 31-32 and 41-48, and 2 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
YELLOW · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-90.

CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yellow?

87 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Yellow hard to play on drums?

41 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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