The Wolf You Feed · Nita Strauss

189 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14 and 50-52, and 8 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE WOLF YOU FEED · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 21, 24, 25 and 31 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 41-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 37 are fills, 46 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

PART P
PART J
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART S13
CHORUS 3
13 groovesGS13PAFJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wolf You Feed?

200 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 You Feed hard to play on drums?

49 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Wolf You Feed?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 21, 24, 25 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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