Catalyst · Nerfy Moist Destroyer

168 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 83 and 89-91, and 7 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
CATALYST · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 36 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 18 sections: 81 keep time, 42 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-124.

PART G
PART P
PART X
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJPGYXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Catalyst?

208 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Catalyst hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Catalyst?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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