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The Wolf Is Loose · Mastodon

EXERCISE 31 OF 83
Groove R -- Part R
92 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART R
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wolf Is Loose on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-52, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-78 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED