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A Wolf At The Door · Radiohead

EXERCISE 3 OF 23
Groove H -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Wolf At The Door on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-26, ride through bars 27-32, hi-hat through bars 33-42, ride through bars 43-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x--------x--------|
BD |x--------------------------------x--|
A Wolf At The Door -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-43 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-55 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED