Wolves · Kittie

82 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-9 and 34-36, and 1 more place -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
WOLVES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 29, 33, 37 and 1 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 10 sections: 45 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-48.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesBS10IHE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wolves?

145 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 Wolves hard to play on drums?

50 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Wolves?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 29, 33, 37 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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