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Wolves · Marduk

EXERCISE 13 OF 95
Fill at bar 12 (a small one)
101 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wolves on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-46 and ride through bars 47-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Wolves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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