Into The Infinity Of Thoughts · Emperor

321 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 9:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

165 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

321

LENGTH

9:08

DIFFICULTY

69/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-42, snare through bars 43-44, ride through bars 45-74, hi-hat through bars 75-94 and ride through bars 95-102, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 28 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

25 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 43 and 58 more.

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 41-75 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.