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Wolf And Raven · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 13 OF 40
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 31-33)
144 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCAEJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolf And Raven on drums

183 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
88/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 33-39 and 49-57, and 4 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Wolf And Raven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 58, 66, 84 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-28 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-86 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-127 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 123-138 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wolf And Raven?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wolf And Raven hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wolf And Raven?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 58, 66, 84 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED