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Wolf Like Me · Tv On The Radio

Wolf Like Me · Tv On The Radio
EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove C -- Part C
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CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART G
PART M
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGMDAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolf Like Me on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-49, hi-hat through bars 50-92, ride through bars 93-96, hi-hat through bars 97-101 and snare through bars 102-124, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Wolf Like Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-73 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 70-158 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-130 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 126-149 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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