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Karukara · Avial

Karukara · Avial
EXERCISE 5 OF 91
Groove E -- Part E
43 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H, OUTRO 2
PART E
PART M
PART S
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART M
PART H
OUTRO 2
16 groovesABMESAN+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Karukara on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-45, snare through bars 46-52, hi-hat through bars 53-115 and ride through bars 116-117, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57-58 and 61, and 6 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Karukara -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 56, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- M, AB -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 13-121 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Karukara?

135 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 Karukara hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Karukara?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 56, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED