The Gypsy · Deep Purple

164 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 24 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THE GYPSY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 21, 22, 55, 56, 73, 74 and 7 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 156 · LANDS ON BAR 157

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 13 are fills and 64 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-118.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
4 groovesCDKOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Gypsy?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Gypsy hard to play on drums?

47 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 The Gypsy?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 21, 22, 55, 56, 73, 74 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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