Alley Cat · Seventh Wonder

310 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11, and 31 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ALLEY CAT · BAR 32
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 46 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

310 bars across 28 sections: 168 keep time, 52 are fills, 34 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART AB
BREAK 2
16 groovesBABAGCAO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alley Cat?

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

Is Alley Cat hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 109 exercises over 31 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Alley Cat?

22 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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