Karma Police · Pierce The Veil

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 23-24 and 31, and 5 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 77 BPM
KARMA POLICE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 32 and 8 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-79.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFJGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Karma Police?

77 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 Karma Police hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Karma Police?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 32 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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