Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld · Nile

99 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

128 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

99

LENGTH

3:01

DIFFICULTY

78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and ride through bars 33-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 7 and 10, and 8 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

18 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 18, 20, 21 and 42 more.

It cuts the song into 47 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 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 10-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 29-39 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.