Karakara · Kessoku Band

192 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-65, 67-73 and 112-118, and 3 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
KARAKARA · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 18, 26 and 25 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 18 sections: 128 keep time, 31 are fills, 8 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-94.

PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART AE
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesABAPHAEL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Karakara?

190 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 Karakara hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Karakara?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 18, 26 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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