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Yellow (Easy Fills) · Coldplay

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yellow (Easy Fills) on drums

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

44 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
44/100

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 5-11, 31 and 41-47, and 4 more places -- 40% 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 (Easy Fills) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 32, 38, 48, 62, 68 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-36 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Yellow (Easy Fills)?

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 (Easy Fills) hard to play on drums?

44 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 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Yellow (Easy Fills)?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 32, 38, 48, 62, 68 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED