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Stray Cat Strut · Stray Cats

EXERCISE 18 OF 33
Join Chorus 2 to Part F (bars 72-74)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stray Cat Strut on drums

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

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-26, snare through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-34, snare through bars 35-36 and ride through bars 37-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----|
SD |------x-----------x--x--|
BD |x--------x--x-----------|
Stray Cat Strut -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-33 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-85 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 84-105 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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