Of Wolf And Man · Metallica

131 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 7 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
OF WOLF AND MAN · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 35, 45, 49, 58, 68 and 9 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 14 sections: 90 keep time, 15 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-18.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART V
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesHIBGR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Of Wolf And Man?

122 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 Of Wolf And Man hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Of Wolf And Man?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 35, 45, 49, 58, 68 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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