Purple Stain · Red Hot Chili Peppers

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-10, 17-23 and 42, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
PURPLE STAIN · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 51, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 and 3 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 93-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 103-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-80.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART I
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBEIKW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Purple Stain?

102 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Stain hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Stain?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 51, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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