Just to refresh, under the 1-99 scale old 8s are ~35-45. 9s are 46-55.
Therefore right now this song is a high 8. But take a look at some of the patterns...
Right off the bat we begin with a 22112 12th pattern, which is horribly awkward by itself, not to mention when we're going cold into it. But okay...one obnoxious pattern doesn't make a C. (The pattern does repeat itself, btw)
That's the least of it, however.
A little later you have alternating 64th and 48th grace notes, which are confusing as hell to players of that skill level. Grace notes aren't even common in 8s except in classical/piano songs, not to mention ones with alternating colours in them. They create some confusing framers as well:
The chart goes on like this for a while, nothing new except for a few !surprise! 12th jacks in there. So it's a mid-8 until just after the halfway mark, when an interesting [34]43[24]4[123] pattern appears out of nowhere after a slow part. The first polyrhythm appears here, and it only gets tougher.
Soon you have 12th stream mixed with a couple of 8ths and the aforementioned 48th and 64th grace notes too. Then, this thing happens...twice:
Since when do 8s have 8th/12th polyrhythms with 32nd bursts thrown in?
After this there's a bunch more polyrhythms comprising of 12ths and then 16ths, with 48th graces in them.
And that's why this song is not a 43 - it finds better company amongst things like Fantranstic than, say, Remember 15 Years Ago.
Therefore right now this song is a high 8. But take a look at some of the patterns...
Right off the bat we begin with a 22112 12th pattern, which is horribly awkward by itself, not to mention when we're going cold into it. But okay...one obnoxious pattern doesn't make a C. (The pattern does repeat itself, btw)
That's the least of it, however.
A little later you have alternating 64th and 48th grace notes, which are confusing as hell to players of that skill level. Grace notes aren't even common in 8s except in classical/piano songs, not to mention ones with alternating colours in them. They create some confusing framers as well:
The chart goes on like this for a while, nothing new except for a few !surprise! 12th jacks in there. So it's a mid-8 until just after the halfway mark, when an interesting [34]43[24]4[123] pattern appears out of nowhere after a slow part. The first polyrhythm appears here, and it only gets tougher.
Soon you have 12th stream mixed with a couple of 8ths and the aforementioned 48th and 64th grace notes too. Then, this thing happens...twice:
Since when do 8s have 8th/12th polyrhythms with 32nd bursts thrown in?
After this there's a bunch more polyrhythms comprising of 12ths and then 16ths, with 48th graces in them.
And that's why this song is not a 43 - it finds better company amongst things like Fantranstic than, say, Remember 15 Years Ago.
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