House Of Wolves · My Chemical Romance

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-26 and 41-43, and 5 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
HOUSE OF WOLVES · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 38, 40, 48 and 6 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-26.

PART A
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIDLCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is House Of Wolves?

106 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 House Of Wolves hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 House Of Wolves?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 38, 40, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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