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Purple Haze · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove B -- Part B
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purple Haze on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-32, ride through bars 33-43, hi-hat through bars 44-61 and ride through bars 62-77.

The beat

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.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |X-----------X-----------X-----------X-----------|
SD |X-----------X-----------X-----------X-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------x-----|
Purple Haze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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