The Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased (Better version) · Nile

240 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

240 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

240

LENGTH

4:04

DIFFICULTY

76/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-14, snare through bars 15-16, toms through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 42 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 151 and 166-172, and 5 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    187
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

30 fills to learn, played 120 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 114 more.

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AB, BW -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
3. Through Part T -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part T -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part T -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Bars 1-48 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
7. Through Part AH and Part AK -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part AH and Part AK -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 16 more sittings after that.