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Silent Wolf · Harms Way

EXERCISE 24 OF 38
Join Part O to Part Y (bars 85-87)
83 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART Y
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Y
OUTRO
7 groovesIOYACS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silent Wolf on drums

108 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-7, ride through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, snare through bars 29-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|x---x-----x-x---|
Silent Wolf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 43, 44 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- O, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-99 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Y and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Silent Wolf?

177 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 Silent Wolf 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Silent Wolf?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 43, 44 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED