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Adult Black Cat · Acid Black Cherry

Adult Black Cat · Acid Black Cherry
EXERCISE 26 OF 90
Groove P -- Part P
110 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART Q, PART P
PART H
PART K
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Adult Black Cat on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x--x--x-----x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----------x--|
Adult Black Cat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-73 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-77 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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