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

EXERCISE 5 OF 17
Groove E
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0 / 17 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
COUNT-IN
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesBCS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rain Formerly Known as Purple (Risk of Rain 2) on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-106.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
The Rain Formerly Known as Purple (Risk of Rain 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 41-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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