Cat Scratch Fever · Pantera

121 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
CAT SCRATCH FEVER · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 9, 24, 25, 45, 49 and 17 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 16 sections: 67 keep time, 23 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART AF
OUTRO
8 groovesEIAFAS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cat Scratch Fever?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cat Scratch Fever hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cat Scratch Fever?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 9, 24, 25, 45, 49 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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