Stray Cat Strut · Stray Cats

105 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 12, and 27 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
STRAY CAT STRUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 56, 76, 92 and 104.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 12 sections: 84 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-50.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
7 groovesBEFAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stray Cat Strut?

130 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 Stray Cat Strut hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stray Cat Strut?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 56, 76, 92 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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