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Yellow (Standard Tuning) · Coldplay

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yellow (Standard Tuning) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-63, ride through bars 64-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Yellow (Standard Tuning) -- 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 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-41 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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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