Purple Haze ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒซ๏ธ ยท JIMI HENDRIX

10 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
10
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 and 7-9 -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP ยท 112 BPM
PURPLE HAZE ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒซ๏ธ ยท BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP ยท 112 BPM
BAR 5 ยท LANDS ON BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

10 bars: 9 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-10.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Purple Haze ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒซ๏ธ?

112 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 Purple Haze ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒซ๏ธ 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

10 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Purple Haze ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒซ๏ธ?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF ยท 10 BARS ANALYSED
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