Drone · Karnivool

140 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 4:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 6 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DRONE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 28 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 6 sections: 54 keep time, 34 are fills, 1 is a stop and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-29.

PART C
CHORUS
PART Y
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS6JCYEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drone?

180 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Drone hard to play on drums?

42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Drone?

6 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 28 more.

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