Wolf Like Me · Tv On The Radio

184 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49 and 51, and 36 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WOLF LIKE ME · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 44, 60, 68, 91, 92 and 13 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 10 sections: 149 keep time, 19 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGMDAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wolf Like Me?

170 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 Like Me hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Like Me?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 44, 60, 68, 91, 92 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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