I'm actually not really sure where I'd place Ehhen but I figure 83 is pretty reasonable. Feel free to suggest other difficulties.
Here's a summary of the patterns in Ehhen. Keep in mind that the song runs at a constant 197 bpm before you read this. The beginning has a lot of hands, awkward 24th transitions, and tons of 24th minitrills and minijacks which make it really tough both to read and to hit. After a little break (hands and quads only, though) we have another similar section with 24th trills, minijacks, and pretty heavy jumpstream. Then after a little "break" (still with lots of jumps and hands, short js bursts, and some minijumpjacks) we get into a relatively long and extremely dense jumpstream section with a ton of jumps and even a few hands thrown in. There's a jumptrill in the middle of it too. The rest of the song is pretty similar to that, with some longish heavy jump/handstream parts and a lot of hands and jumpstream bursts even in the slower parts.
Sounds hard? I know I'm not a high D6 player, but I can name several songs in the 80-83 range that I can pretty comfortably play through with acceptable PA, and although I might not FC them every time, I can get through with far fewer goods and boos. Ehhen is not a song I can comfortably play through - my hands get tired very rapidly and I end up practically mashing to get through the densest sections. Let's compare this file to some similar medium-bpm jumpstream charts around that difficulty:
- honki sentai majirenjaa (79). Although the 24ths and minijack sections can be tricky, nothing in honki is nearly as tiring or dense as the long, difficult sections in Ehhen. Ehhen has sections that maintain the same speed as the hardest jumpstream bursts in honki for quite a while, and honki has a lot of breaks with easy 8th rhythms with very few 8th jacks. Almost everything that makes honki tricky to PA is in Ehhen somewhere, and honki doesn't require much stamina or speed to play through and get reasonable PA, whereas Ehhen requires way more stamina just to hit the patterns.
- Pants (79). I know a lot of the difficulty here is from the length, but just looking at that one hardest part (the long js section) against Ehhen's heavier jumpstream sections, Ehhen has a higher bpm (197 vs. 190) and is also denser. Neither song gives much of a break but I'd say that the extra density and the handstream aspect of Ehhen make that much harder. In addition, Pants is extremely straightforward with just jumpstream throughout, without even any minijacks, and Pants even repeats patterns, whereas Ehhen tires you out with minijacks, tons of hands, and 24th bursts and trills, going all over the place. Ehhen definitely needs more speed to hit, and is less straightforward too.
- Nomina Nuda Tenemus (81). This is a classic example of a heavy jumsptream file, at a similar bpm (195) to Ehhen. There is a section of roughly 600 notes, then a break, then a section of roughly 300 notes. Nomina is pretty dense but it has very few hands and anchorjacks, and except for those two quick 32nd bursts it's very straightforward, almost entirely consisting of straight jumpstream. The tps of NNT is pretty similar to that of Ehhen, but Ehhen goes on for much longer without much of a break and also includes lots of hands and a very tricky beginning section. The speed required for the actual jumpstream sections is similar, but Ehhen requires much more stamina and also requires the player to hit 24th trills and minijacks at the start, even before all the really heavy stuff comes.
- Little God Ch@nnel (83). This song also has jumpstream sections at 189bpm (including a lot of 32nds) and some tricky minijack parts. However, most of the 32nd sections can be either jumptrilled or just hit by doing a trill on each hand. While there are stamina issues involved in simply playing these patterns for 4 minutes, LGC doesn't even come close to the tps of Ehhen, and again Ehhen has very few real breaks whereas LGC has most of its difficulty in spikes, which are tricky to PA but not particularly hard to hit. Ehhen requires more speed to hit, more control to manage all the hands without dumping boos all over the place, and more stamina to simply power through the high-tps patterns for the entire file.
- Mourning the Lost (83). This song does have a higher bpm than Ehhen (somewhere like 210-220) and some pretty high-density sections, but it also has a lot of easier break sections. Mourning is also pretty repetitive, so that by learning how to do one section you can pretty accurately hit similar patterns throughout the chart. The stamina and speed required are counterbalanced by this repetitive nature and the breaks, so that you basically go all-out every once in a while and then wait for the next section. We can compare this to Ehhen which needs a little less speed but requires you to keep it up for basically the entire song, and also varies up the patterns so you can never really get used to hitting something in a particular way. I think Mourning is definitely an easier AAA because of this repetitive nature, and even though it has 2300 notes, which is normally considered long, that is not all that much different from Ehhen's 1600 notes. Ehhen is not a short file either.
After seeing these files, it looks to me like Ehhen doesn't fit in with the 79s at all, and I don't think it would be out of place at all in the 83ish area. Again, feel free to suggest another difficulty, but I do think 83 or so would make way more sense than 79.
Here's a summary of the patterns in Ehhen. Keep in mind that the song runs at a constant 197 bpm before you read this. The beginning has a lot of hands, awkward 24th transitions, and tons of 24th minitrills and minijacks which make it really tough both to read and to hit. After a little break (hands and quads only, though) we have another similar section with 24th trills, minijacks, and pretty heavy jumpstream. Then after a little "break" (still with lots of jumps and hands, short js bursts, and some minijumpjacks) we get into a relatively long and extremely dense jumpstream section with a ton of jumps and even a few hands thrown in. There's a jumptrill in the middle of it too. The rest of the song is pretty similar to that, with some longish heavy jump/handstream parts and a lot of hands and jumpstream bursts even in the slower parts.
Sounds hard? I know I'm not a high D6 player, but I can name several songs in the 80-83 range that I can pretty comfortably play through with acceptable PA, and although I might not FC them every time, I can get through with far fewer goods and boos. Ehhen is not a song I can comfortably play through - my hands get tired very rapidly and I end up practically mashing to get through the densest sections. Let's compare this file to some similar medium-bpm jumpstream charts around that difficulty:
- honki sentai majirenjaa (79). Although the 24ths and minijack sections can be tricky, nothing in honki is nearly as tiring or dense as the long, difficult sections in Ehhen. Ehhen has sections that maintain the same speed as the hardest jumpstream bursts in honki for quite a while, and honki has a lot of breaks with easy 8th rhythms with very few 8th jacks. Almost everything that makes honki tricky to PA is in Ehhen somewhere, and honki doesn't require much stamina or speed to play through and get reasonable PA, whereas Ehhen requires way more stamina just to hit the patterns.
- Pants (79). I know a lot of the difficulty here is from the length, but just looking at that one hardest part (the long js section) against Ehhen's heavier jumpstream sections, Ehhen has a higher bpm (197 vs. 190) and is also denser. Neither song gives much of a break but I'd say that the extra density and the handstream aspect of Ehhen make that much harder. In addition, Pants is extremely straightforward with just jumpstream throughout, without even any minijacks, and Pants even repeats patterns, whereas Ehhen tires you out with minijacks, tons of hands, and 24th bursts and trills, going all over the place. Ehhen definitely needs more speed to hit, and is less straightforward too.
- Nomina Nuda Tenemus (81). This is a classic example of a heavy jumsptream file, at a similar bpm (195) to Ehhen. There is a section of roughly 600 notes, then a break, then a section of roughly 300 notes. Nomina is pretty dense but it has very few hands and anchorjacks, and except for those two quick 32nd bursts it's very straightforward, almost entirely consisting of straight jumpstream. The tps of NNT is pretty similar to that of Ehhen, but Ehhen goes on for much longer without much of a break and also includes lots of hands and a very tricky beginning section. The speed required for the actual jumpstream sections is similar, but Ehhen requires much more stamina and also requires the player to hit 24th trills and minijacks at the start, even before all the really heavy stuff comes.
- Little God Ch@nnel (83). This song also has jumpstream sections at 189bpm (including a lot of 32nds) and some tricky minijack parts. However, most of the 32nd sections can be either jumptrilled or just hit by doing a trill on each hand. While there are stamina issues involved in simply playing these patterns for 4 minutes, LGC doesn't even come close to the tps of Ehhen, and again Ehhen has very few real breaks whereas LGC has most of its difficulty in spikes, which are tricky to PA but not particularly hard to hit. Ehhen requires more speed to hit, more control to manage all the hands without dumping boos all over the place, and more stamina to simply power through the high-tps patterns for the entire file.
- Mourning the Lost (83). This song does have a higher bpm than Ehhen (somewhere like 210-220) and some pretty high-density sections, but it also has a lot of easier break sections. Mourning is also pretty repetitive, so that by learning how to do one section you can pretty accurately hit similar patterns throughout the chart. The stamina and speed required are counterbalanced by this repetitive nature and the breaks, so that you basically go all-out every once in a while and then wait for the next section. We can compare this to Ehhen which needs a little less speed but requires you to keep it up for basically the entire song, and also varies up the patterns so you can never really get used to hitting something in a particular way. I think Mourning is definitely an easier AAA because of this repetitive nature, and even though it has 2300 notes, which is normally considered long, that is not all that much different from Ehhen's 1600 notes. Ehhen is not a short file either.
After seeing these files, it looks to me like Ehhen doesn't fit in with the 79s at all, and I don't think it would be out of place at all in the 83ish area. Again, feel free to suggest another difficulty, but I do think 83 or so would make way more sense than 79.
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