Wolf Like Me · Tv On The Radio

172 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-21, 43-91 and 128-172 -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 176 BPM
WOLF LIKE ME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 7 sections: 160 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-91.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesCGBS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wolf Like Me?

176 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?

47 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wolf Like Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

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