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Someones In The Wolf · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove D
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PART A
PART F
PART A
PART F
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesMAFCL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Someones In The Wolf on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-82, snare through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-86, snare through bars 87-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-90, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x-------|
SD |--x-----x-------|
T2 |------------x---|
BD |x---x-x-----x---|
Someones In The Wolf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-170 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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