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EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Run S21 · Break (bars 5-6)
61 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cat Scratch Fever on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, ride through bars 25-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|x---x-------x-------x-----------|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Cat Scratch Fever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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