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Purple Heart · Sabaton

EXERCISE 2 OF 55
Groove S -- Part S
29 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
COUNT-IN
PART M
PART S
PART M
PART S
CHORUS
PART S12
PART S
PART F
10 groovesXSFMS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purple Heart on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-53 and ride through bars 54-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-96 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    69
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Purple Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 19, 20, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-21 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-33 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Purple Heart?

88 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 Heart hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 Purple Heart?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 19, 20, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED