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10 Karats · Dmitriy Beznosow

EXERCISE 11 OF 25
Run B1 · Part B (bars 5-16)
52 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS7DCBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 10 Karats on drums

92 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 107 BPM, 5:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and ride through bars 51-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-34 -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---------x-----------x-|
10 Karats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 38, 40, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 10 Karats?

107 BPM, in 6/4, 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 10 Karats hard to play on drums?

38 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 10 Karats?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 38, 40, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED