AstroCats · Käsiger Michael

133 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 3 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ASTROCATS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 15, 43 and 23 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 17 sections: 53 keep time, 29 are fills, 13 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-67.

PART A
PART A
PART S4
PART F
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART V
BREAK 4
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHAFS4S10+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is AstroCats?

150 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 AstroCats hard to play on drums?

46 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 AstroCats?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 15, 43 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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