The Eye Of Ra · Nile

156 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

124 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

156

LENGTH

4:44

DIFFICULTY

98/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, ride through bars 26-29 and toms through bars 30-31, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 40-42 and 44-45, and 9 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    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---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

25 fills to learn, played 106 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 100 more.

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- BV -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- BH -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
5. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part S2 and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 2-32 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
9. and 14 more sittings after that.