Cat Scratch Fever · Ted Nugent

115 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-84 and 93-104 -- 89.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
CAT SCRATCH FEVER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-84.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART B
5 groovesCBS1S3S6Fill 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 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 Cat Scratch Fever hard to play on drums?

42 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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