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Karma Chameleon · Culture Club

Karma Chameleon · Culture Club
EXERCISE 8 OF 28
Groove F
151 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Karma Chameleon on drums

194 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-146, toms through bars 147-162 and hi-hat through bars 163-194.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-17 and 19-25, and 34 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 73, 129, 162, 177, 178 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 149-163 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Karma Chameleon?

184 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 Karma Chameleon hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Karma Chameleon?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 73, 129, 162, 177, 178 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED