Wolf-Age · Einherjer

174 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 43-48 and 67, and 3 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WOLF-AGE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 25, 39, 41, 49, 61 and 20 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 13 sections: 121 keep time, 26 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-85.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART AF
OUTRO
8 groovesEAFLGS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wolf-Age?

150 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 Wolf-Age hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wolf-Age?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 25, 39, 41, 49, 61 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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