Purple Yellow Red & Blue · Portugal The Man

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-14 and 16-21, and 13 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PURPLE YELLOW RED & BLUE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 68, 96 and 104.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 87 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-48.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
VERSE
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGPHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Purple Yellow Red & Blue?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Yellow Red & Blue hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Purple Yellow Red & Blue?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 68, 96 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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