Forging Towards The Sunset · Anaal Nathrakh

174 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

240 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

174

LENGTH

2:53

DIFFICULTY

72/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43 and snare through bars 44-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 48-55 and 68-75, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 47, 67, 93 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, F -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 24-51 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 52-119 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 60-68 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
8. Bars 64-117 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.