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Cats · Macseal
EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove C
34 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cats on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-15, snare through bars 16-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, snare through bars 36-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x--x-x-x-x-x-x--|
HH |--xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|----------------|
SD |---x---x---x---x|---x---x---x--xx|
BD |x-----x---x--xx-|x-x--xx--xx--x--|
Cats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-45 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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