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Wolfpack · Sabaton

EXERCISE 15 OF 31
Run C2 · Part C (bars 25-51)
80 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesFCJAAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolfpack on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-27, hi-hat through bars 28-44, ride through bars 45-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-24, 45-47 and 49-51, and 2 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    80                               81
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-|x---x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-----x-x-|x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x---x-x-x-|
Wolfpack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 74-99 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wolfpack?

80 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 Wolfpack hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 Wolfpack?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED