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Cry Wolf · Sundazer

Cry Wolf · Sundazer
EXERCISE 7 OF 40
Groove C
23 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART A
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cry Wolf on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-15 and ride through bars 16-24, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                                                                10
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----x-----------x-------------------x-----------x-----x---------|
BD |x-------x-------------------x---x-------x---------------x-------|------------x-----------x-------------------x-------x-------x---|
Cry Wolf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, X -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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