The Wolf Is Loose · Mastodon

159 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 13-15, and 6 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE WOLF IS LOOSE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 44 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 14 sections: 92 keep time, 50 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

CHORUS
PART G
PART N
PART Q
PART R
PART U
PART Y
PART AB
OUTRO
9 groovesCNGYAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wolf Is Loose?

170 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 The Wolf Is Loose hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Wolf Is Loose?

19 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 44 more.

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