purple · Olivia Rodrigo

89 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-55, 57-63 and 65-71, and 1 more place -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 151 BPM
PURPLE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 64 and 72.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 3 sections: 80 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-55.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is purple?

151 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 hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in purple?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 64 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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