Karma · Parkway Drive

144 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 57-59 -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
KARMA · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BARS 1-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 20 sections: 74 keep time, 37 are fills, 10 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-109.

PART G
CHORUS
PART O
PART W
PART Y
PART AD
PART AL
PART AT
PART AX
PART BB
18 groovesALBBLATG+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Karma?

208 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?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 23 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 Karma?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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