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Wolf-Age · Einherjer

Wolf-Age · Einherjer
EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolf-Age on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-27, ride through bars 28-29 and snare through bars 30-31, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Wolf-Age -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-26 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-38 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-42 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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