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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

136 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

168

LENGTH

4:56

DIFFICULTY

73/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-80 and snare through bars 81-88, and 4 more changes after that.

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-xxx-xx-xx-x-xx|x-xx-xx---xxx-x-|

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

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
4. Bars 18-150 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 54-83 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
8. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.