A Wolf Amongst Ravens · After The Burial

168 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 22-23 and 27-28, and 11 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
A WOLF AMONGST RAVENS · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 32, 33, 40 and 48 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 57-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 16 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time, 54 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-102.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S6
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEJMS6S1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Wolf Amongst Ravens?

136 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 A Wolf Amongst Ravens hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Wolf Amongst Ravens?

15 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 32, 33, 40 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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