Father Of The Wolf · Amon Amarth

194 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-31 and 57-71, and 4 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
FATHER OF THE WOLF · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 18 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 13 sections: 116 keep time, 28 are fills, 33 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-152.

CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART V
PART AE
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHMRVAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Father Of The Wolf?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Father Of The Wolf hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Father Of The Wolf?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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