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Purple Yellow Red & Blue · Portugal The Man

Purple Yellow Red & Blue · Portugal The Man
EXERCISE 20 OF 26
Run H1 · Verse (bars 63-68)
88 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purple Yellow Red & Blue on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x-------|
Purple Yellow Red & Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-100 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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