Stray Cat Strut
Stray Cats · 1981
A minor-key blues feel with brush-like dynamics, staple of stand-up rockabilly drumming.
- Artist
- Stray Cats
- Year
- 1981
- Genre
- rockabilly
- Drummer
- Slim Jim Phantom
- Tempo
- 120 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- 12/8 minor blues
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
72bpm
Building
96bpm
Target
120bpm
The feel
A 12/8 minor blues in 4/4 around 120 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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