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Purple · Shuggie Otis

Purple · Shuggie Otis
EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove B -- Part B
130 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 51 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
PART B
OUTRO
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purple on drums

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

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, ride through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-88, ride through bars 89-92, hi-hat through bars 93-100 and ride through bars 101-104, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Bars 59-129 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 103-172 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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