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Originally Posted by kssael 2.0  147 BPM with 32nd's? Those snare rolls are 16th triplets (24ths for StepMania lingo) which is equal to 16th's in 220.5 BPM. Those forced double bass patterns in the beginning and sparsely around the song makes it a real 99, including those tom fills which are NOT played like that in a real kit.
Tip: Search for George Kollias or Tim Waterson in YouTube in how to do a continuous heel-toe technique which is quite useful for the beginning of that song. |
First off, yeah most of the rolls are 24ths, but if you watch the fast snare rolls in the beginning, even freeze-framing them on the youtube video, you can delineate spaces for eight notes to a beat, making them 32nd notes. There are four rolls like this, most in the beginning, one as just a triple-note burst, but they are definitely there. Upon a bit of research and math, this totals to 1176 single strokes per minute, close to the world record for single strokes a couple years back.
Second, Children's Sketchbook and R.P.M Red (I think) both have small areas of bullshit kickdrum stuff, neither of which are 99s (although sketchbook is kinda close, but probably for other reasons). There are some special techniques for taking care of these, heel-toe being one of them, but if you have even a little bit of leg strength you can muscle through them no problem, which is how I roll.
Third, most/all of the tom rolls are ergonomically feasible. The two fast runs in the middle are all doable via left-right rolls, although it doesn't seem like that because they're so fast. It's sorta the same thing with Sketchbook and Concertino at places.
If A.DOGMA is gonna be considered a 99 for any reason, it'll be for the blast beats and the run of c+s r g r c+s r g r runs near the beginning.