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The Wolves Leader · Aegirson

EXERCISE 2 OF 50
Groove N -- Part N
36 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wolves Leader on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, ride through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-69, ride through bars 70-77, hi-hat through bars 78-89 and ride through bars 90-100, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-----x---|
The Wolves Leader -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-22 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-76 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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