Dire Wolf · Grateful Dead

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-34, 39-42 and 51-54, and 3 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DIRE WOLF · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 24 sections: 93 keep time, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-86.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECDFB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dire Wolf?

150 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 Dire Wolf hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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