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purple · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove D -- Outro 2
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0 / 11 PASSED · 61 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play purple on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-89.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
purple -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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