Cry Wolf · Sundazer

73 bars, 3:54, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 31, and 2 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
CRY WOLF · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 14, 25, 26 and 7 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 13 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJSEXZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cry Wolf?

75 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Cry Wolf hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 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 Cry Wolf?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 14, 25, 26 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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