Cats · Macseal

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 4 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CATS · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 40, 43, 44, 68, 72 and 9 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-13.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBTQK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cats?

100 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 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cats?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 40, 43, 44, 68, 72 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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