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The Wolf You Feed · Nita Strauss

The Wolf You Feed · Nita Strauss
EXERCISE 18 OF 81
Groove N -- Outro
109 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
PART P
PART J
CHORUS
PART O
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART S13
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesGS13PAFJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wolf You Feed on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, toms through bars 41-49, hi-hat through bars 50-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
The Wolf You Feed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- G, P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-177 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 20-67 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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