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ANIMAL · Kats Eye

ANIMAL · Kats Eye
EXERCISE 6 OF 20
Run B1 · Part B (bars 2-18)
58 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ANIMAL on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-23, silence through bars 24-33, hi-hat through bars 34-56, silence through bars 57-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-81, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
ANIMAL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 22-42 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-80 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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