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Karma · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 20 OF 89
2-bar fill at bar 26
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0 / 89 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Karma on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-28 and kick and crashes through bars 29-36, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-34 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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