The Wolves Leader · Aegirson

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 9 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE WOLVES LEADER · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 21, 45, 69, 75, 78, 79 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 78-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 14 sections: 101 keep time, 18 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-37.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesGNWAK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wolves Leader?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Wolves Leader hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wolves Leader?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 21, 45, 69, 75, 78, 79 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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