Wolf Totem · hu

211 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 14 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
WOLF TOTEM · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 49, 50, 58, 66, 74, 106 and 8 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 16 sections: 131 keep time, 14 are fills, 40 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-48.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
10 groovesBEFAL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wolf Totem?

172 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 Totem hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Totem?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 49, 50, 58, 66, 74, 106 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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