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This Cat Is a Landmine · 65daysofstatic

This Cat Is a Landmine · 65daysofstatic
EXERCISE 6 OF 80
Fill at bar 24
32 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART I
PART O
PART E
PART AJ
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
15 groovesANEOCS1+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Cat Is a Landmine on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-33, silence through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-49, snare through bars 50-61 and toms through bars 62-70, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 77-80, and 1 more place -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o---o-|
SD |--x-----x---xx--|
BD |x---x-x---x-----|
This Cat Is a Landmine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 47, 48, 49 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-52 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-58 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-73 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Cat Is a Landmine?

140 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 This Cat Is a Landmine hard to play on drums?

55 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 This Cat Is a Landmine?

14 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 47, 48, 49 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED