Love On The Catwalk · Her Words Kill

172 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-23 and 25, and 4 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
LOVE ON THE CATWALK · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 36, 48, 51, 52, 56 and 13 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 17 sections: 84 keep time, 19 are fills, 12 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

PART B
PART E
PART G
PART M
PART O
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
15 groovesS12BGMW+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love On The Catwalk?

133 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 Love On The Catwalk hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Love On The Catwalk?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 36, 48, 51, 52, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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