Year Of The Cat · Al Stewart

191 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-25, 27 and 29-31, and 22 more places -- 66.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 117 BPM
YEAR OF THE CAT · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 98, 106, 114, 131, 147, 163 and 5 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 147 · LANDS ON BAR 148 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 163 · LANDS ON BAR 164 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 8 sections: 157 keep time, 11 are fills and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-79.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesBIS1GM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Year Of The Cat?

117 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 Year Of The Cat hard to play on drums?

51 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?

191 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Year Of The Cat?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 98, 106, 114, 131, 147, 163 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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