Wolves · Marduk

267 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
WOLVES · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 22, 24, 25 and 32 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

267 bars across 20 sections: 174 keep time, 38 are fills, 34 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-42.

PART K
PART K
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART M
PART AH
PART AK
14 groovesSMAHKW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wolves?

160 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 Wolves hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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?

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 22, 24, 25 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED
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