Catch Hot One · AFI

113 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-26 and 53-60 -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
CATCH HOT ONE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 30, 49 and 6 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-26.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesEHFNM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Catch Hot One?

153 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 Catch Hot One hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Catch Hot One?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 30, 49 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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