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The Gypsy · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 34 OF 35
Run D5 · Outro 2 (bars 160-164)
160 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDKOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Gypsy on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-89, snare through bars 90-122, hi-hat through bars 123-152, snare through bars 153-154 and hi-hat through bars 155-164.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
The Gypsy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-96 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 122-154 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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