The Rain Formerly Known as Purple (Risk of Rain 2) · Chris Christodoulou

106 bars, 6:31, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 36 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
THE RAIN FORMERLY KNOWN AS PURPLE (RISK OF RAIN 2) · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 106.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 5 sections: 90 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-105.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesBCS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rain Formerly Known as Purple (Risk of Rain 2)?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Rain Formerly Known as Purple (Risk of Rain 2) hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Rain Formerly Known as Purple (Risk of Rain 2)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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