Someones In The Wolf · Queens Of The Stone Age

296 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 7:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 20 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SOMEONES IN THE WOLF · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 4, 14 and 288.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 288 · LANDS ON BAR 289
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

296 bars across 13 sections: 267 keep time, 4 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 185-255.

PART A
PART F
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesMAFCL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Someones In The Wolf?

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 Someones In The Wolf hard to play on drums?

47 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Someones In The Wolf?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 4, 14 and 288.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED
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