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Cats In The Cradle V2 · Ugly Kid Joe

Cats In The Cradle V2 · Ugly Kid Joe
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDES1S9FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cats In The Cradle V2 on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-118, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-32, 54-62 and 83-94, and 5 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    127
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Cats In The Cradle V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 53, 81, 82, 96, 125 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-87 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 95-127 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cats In The Cradle V2?

150 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 Cats In The Cradle V2 hard to play on drums?

38 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cats In The Cradle V2?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 53, 81, 82, 96, 125 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED