Running with the Wolves · Aurora

137 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-49, 82-96 and 98, and 4 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
RUNNING WITH THE WOLVES · BARS 42-43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 137.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 2 are fills, 11 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-73.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
7 groovesDBAS9S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Running with the Wolves?

164 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 Running with the Wolves hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Running with the Wolves?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 137.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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