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Death of the Wolf · Peur

EXERCISE 21 OF 44
Groove W (a two-bar phrase)
65 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death of the Wolf on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-13, silence through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-25, toms through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-76 and ride through bars 77-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part S2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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