Black Diamond · KISS

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 54, and 1 more place -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BLACK DIAMOND · BAR 117
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 45 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 25-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 14 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 51 are fills, 21 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART K
PART J
PART K
PART AJ
PART AQ
OUTRO
11 groovesEKAQAJS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Diamond?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Black Diamond hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Diamond?

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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