ANIMAL · Kats Eye

110 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 34-36 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 151 BPM
ANIMAL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 65 and 73.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCBS12DS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ANIMAL?

151 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 ANIMAL hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 ANIMAL?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 65 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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