Yellow (Standard Tuning) · Coldplay

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 32-33 and 42-49, 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 · 88 BPM
YELLOW (STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-91.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yellow (Standard Tuning)?

88 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 (Standard Tuning) hard to play on drums?

43 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?

92 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 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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