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Lost Kitten · Metric

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesACS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lost Kitten on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41, snare through bars 42-56, hi-hat through bars 57-73 and silence through bars 74-82, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32, 42-48 and 50-56 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Lost Kitten -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-74 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lost Kitten?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lost Kitten hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED