A Wolf At The Door · Radiohead

73 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 3:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-19 and 21-24, and 5 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
A WOLF AT THE DOOR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 42, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 5 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 52-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 12 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-25.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Wolf At The Door?

70 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is A Wolf At The Door hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 A Wolf At The Door?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 42, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 5 more.

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