Tommy The Cat · Primus

134 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 20-21 and 50-53, and 1 more place -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
TOMMY THE CAT · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 134.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 134
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-71.

PART A
CHORUS
PART O
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART AD
PART AM
PART AY
PART AA
PART AM
10 groovesLAMOAAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tommy The Cat?

112 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 Tommy The Cat hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tommy The Cat?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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