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Wolves · Kittie

EXERCISE 31 OF 32
Join Outro to Break (bars 63-65)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolves on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, snare through bars 17-25 and ride through bars 26-33, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5..
CC |x--------------------------|
HH |---o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |---------x--------------x--|
BD |x-----xxx---x--x--x--------|
Wolves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-42 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-51 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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