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Cat Scratch Fever · Ted Nugent

Cat Scratch Fever · Ted Nugent
EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART B
5 groovesCBS1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cat Scratch Fever on drums

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

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-84, silence through bars 85-92, hi-hat through bars 93-107 and snare through bars 108-115.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED