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Purple Stain · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purple Stain on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 2-69, ride through bars 70-86, snare through bars 87-89, ride through bars 90-103 and snare through bars 104-106.

The beat

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.

    3                                4
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---o---o---o---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-x-------------x-|x-------------x-x---x-----------|
Purple Stain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-25 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-76 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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