Annihilation Of The Wicked · Nile

283 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

240 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

283

LENGTH

5:04

DIFFICULTY

92/100

ride through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, silence through bars 7-33, hi-hat through bars 34-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-51, and 33 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-39, 45-50 and 64-69, and 13 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    34
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 59, 63 and 49 more.

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 1-40 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Bars 39-45 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 54-72 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
9. and 19 more sittings after that.