Purple Haze · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10 and 45-50 -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
PURPLE HAZE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 23, 25, 27 and 14 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBAFNR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Purple Haze?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Purple Haze?

18 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 23, 25, 27 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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