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Karakara · Kessoku Band

EXERCISE 11 OF 89
Join Part S2 to Part E (bars 4-6)
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0 / 89 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART E
PART S2
PART E
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Karakara on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-54, snare through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-74, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |----------x---x-|
Karakara -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- AB, AE -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-12 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 12-96 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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