Werewolves Of London · Warren Zevon

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 25 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
WEREWOLVES OF LONDON · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 43 and 14 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 57 keep time and 20 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Werewolves Of London?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Werewolves Of London hard to play on drums?

57 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Werewolves Of London?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 43 and 14 more.

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