Cat Scratch Fever
by Ted Nugent
- 127
- BPM
- E minor
- Key
- 9A
- Camelot
- 55
- Danceability
- 1
- Acousticness
Ted Nugent gave the title "Cat Scratch Fever" to both an album and one of its songs. The song is known for its signature riff, a three-tone minor-key melody harmonized in parallel fourths. In 2009 VH1 named it the 32nd-best hard rock song of all time.
Pantera later covered the tune for the CD soundtrack of Detroit Rock City, and their version peaked at 40 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Nugent had no kind words for it. He called it "exceedingly white," with "no soul, no balls, no feel," and finished with "Caucasian all the way."
Cat Scratch Fever runs at 127 BPM, the tempo of house, disco and most club dance music. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.89 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 472 ms. It is in E minor, Camelot 9A, which shares its notes with G major and mixes cleanly with A minor and B minor.
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