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Wolf Moon · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK
PART S9
PART Q
PART I
PART T
OUTRO
10 groovesEIS8CQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolf Moon on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 and 38-44 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------|
Wolf Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 33, 37 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-46 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-81 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part S9 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-107 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wolf Moon?

83 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 Moon hard to play on drums?

62 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wolf Moon?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 33, 37 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED