Wolf Down The Earth · Gojira

162 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 53, and 22 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
WOLF DOWN THE EARTH · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 25, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41 and 21 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 88 keep time, 27 are fills, 23 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AC
9 groovesICACJO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wolf Down The Earth?

123 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 Down The Earth hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Wolf Down The Earth?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 25, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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