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Karena Kamu · Geisha

Karena Kamu · Geisha
EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCBHE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Karena Kamu on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, toms through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-82, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 60, 64, 70 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-44 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-66 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Karena Kamu?

124 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Karena Kamu hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Karena Kamu?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 60, 64, 70 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED