Adult Black Cat · Acid Black Cherry

216 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 22 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
ADULT BLACK CAT · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 1-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 13 sections: 105 keep time, 70 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-54.

PART H
PART Q
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAAFHPQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Adult Black Cat?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Adult Black Cat hard to play on drums?

63 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Adult Black Cat?

23 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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