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Father Of The Wolf · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove H -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Father Of The Wolf on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Father Of The Wolf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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