ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purity (Studio Version) on drums

180 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 174 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 180
LENGTH: 4:09
DIFFICULTY: 67/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-46, ride through bars 47-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-62, 74-86 and 159-160 -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42                                               43
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------------------------------|----------------------x-------------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------x-x-x-x-x-x-------x-x-x-------------------|
BD |------------------------------------------------|x-x-x-------------x-x-x-------x--x--x-----x-----|

Purity (Studio Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 24, 63, 64, 87 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J, A -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 1-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part S and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Purity (Studio Version)?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Purity (Studio Version) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Purity (Studio Version)?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 24, 63, 64, 87 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED