Purple · Shuggie Otis

193 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 7:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-56, 61-87 and 93-100, and 6 more places -- 67.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
PURPLE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 88, 89, 120, 121, 153, 169 and 2 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 153 · LANDS ON BAR 154
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 169 · LANDS ON BAR 170
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 177 · LANDS ON BAR 178

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 13 sections: 172 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
PART B
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Purple?

82 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 88, 89, 120, 121, 153, 169 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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