Purple Reign · Dance Gavin Dance

186 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreFunk / Soul150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
PURPLE REIGN · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 27 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 16 sections: 126 keep time, 33 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-53.

PART A
PART F
PART K
PART R
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAEAKAAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Purple Reign?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Purple Reign hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Purple Reign?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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