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Year of the Cat * · Al Stewart

Year of the Cat * · Al Stewart
EXERCISE 14 OF 18
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 117-119)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1DFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Year of the Cat * on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-98, ride through bars 99-112, hi-hat through bars 113-114, ride through bars 115-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-191.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Year of the Cat * -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 95-113 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 109-119 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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