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Year Of The Cat · Al Stewart

Year Of The Cat · Al Stewart
EXERCISE 27 OF 34
Fill at bar 163 and 181 (a small one)
168 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesBIS1GM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Year Of The Cat on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-80, ride through bars 81-90, hi-hat through bars 91-98, ride through bars 99-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-121, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-93 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 115-148 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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