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AstroCats · Käsiger Michael

EXERCISE 28 OF 61
Fill at bar 55, 101 and 109 (a small one)
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0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART Q
PART A
PART A
PART S4
PART F
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART V
BREAK 4
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART A
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHAFS4S10+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play AstroCats on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, silence through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-67 and silence through bars 68-71, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxxx-xx---xxxx--|--xxxx--xxxxxxxx|
AstroCats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-16 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 42-74 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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