Year of the Cat * · Al Stewart

191 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-44, 46-68 and 70-82, and 8 more places -- 83.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
YEAR OF THE CAT * · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 116, 117, 118 and 121.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 116-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 6 sections: 163 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-89.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1DFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Year of the Cat *?

110 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?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 6:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Year of the Cat *?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 116, 117, 118 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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