Death of the Wolf · Peur

109 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 10 and 37, and 7 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
DEATH OF THE WOLF · BAR 71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 26, 27, 32, 36, 40 and 6 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 12 are fills, 21 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-59.

PART B
PART S2
PART R
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART AO
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesES2AQAJB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death of the Wolf?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Death of the Wolf hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Death of the Wolf?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 26, 27, 32, 36, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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