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Catatonia · Suffocation

EXERCISE 31 OF 98
Run S81 · Part S8 (bars 101-108)
128 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S8
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART T
PART AG
PART AI
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIHTAKAX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Catatonia on drums

225 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 250 BPM, 3:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
89/100

toms through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-6, toms through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-36, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10-11 and 13-15, and 26 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Catatonia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 51, 52, 73 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-101 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part S8 and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Catatonia?

250 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Catatonia hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Catatonia?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 51, 52, 73 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED