Catalina Fight Song · Joyce Manor

30 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 1:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
30
LENGTH
1:05
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13 and 23-28 -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
CATALINA FIGHT SONG · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 21, 22 and 29.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

30 bars across 4 sections: 20 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Catalina Fight Song?

108 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 Catalina Fight Song hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

30 bars, about 1:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Catalina Fight Song?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 21, 22 and 29.

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