Batcat · Mogwai

236 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 134 BPM, 5:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 11 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BATCAT · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 65, 94, 110, 114, 162 and 8 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 195 · LANDS ON BAR 196 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 10 sections: 140 keep time, 14 are fills, 28 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesCAS4OQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Batcat?

134 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Batcat 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Batcat?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 65, 94, 110, 114, 162 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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