Why Rabies? · Seven Little Cats

156 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 6 and 9-12, and 4 more places -- 13.7% 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
WHY RABIES? · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 43 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 44-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 15 sections: 69 keep time, 51 are fills, 5 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
PART H
PART S5
PART T
PART G
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFATGS5+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Why Rabies??

112 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 Why Rabies? hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Why Rabies??

7 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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