Karma · Kamelot

183 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 6 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
KARMA · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 41, 42, 46, 50, 54 and 9 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 19 sections: 114 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-168.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S12
PART R
CHORUS 5
12 groovesCS12TKH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Karma?

155 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 hard to play on drums?

59 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Karma?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 41, 42, 46, 50, 54 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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