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Yellow · Coldplay

EXERCISE 8 OF 11
Join Part C to Part E (bars 31-33)
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0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yellow on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-62, ride through bars 63-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-91.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Yellow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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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