Mountain Magick · Wolves In The Throne Room

229 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 43-46 and 77-83, and 4 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MOUNTAIN MAGICK · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 31, 32, 47, 48 and 19 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 19 sections: 133 keep time, 27 are fills, 35 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-164.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART F
PART A
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJFAGS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mountain Magick?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Mountain Magick hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 7:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mountain Magick?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 31, 32, 47, 48 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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