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Batcat · Mogwai

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove O -- Part O
74 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesCAS4OQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Batcat on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-66, ride through bars 67-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-94, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34           35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
RD |----x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x---|------x-x---|
Batcat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F (a two-bar phrase), C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 113-197 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 196-224 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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