Karma Police · Radiohead

79 bars, 4:13, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 78.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
KARMA POLICE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 47.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-79.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1S5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Karma Police?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Karma Police hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 47.

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