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Wolf Down The Earth · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART C
PART B
PART J
PART C
CHORUS
PART S9
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesICACJO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolf Down The Earth on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-42 and toms through bars 43-44, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    63
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------x-----|
HH |------o-----o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---------x-----x-x-----|
Wolf Down The Earth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- I, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-42 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-58 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S9 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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