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Black Diamond · KISS

EXERCISE 36 OF 72
Join Part K to Chorus (bars 52-54)
102 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART K
PART J
PART K
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART AQ
OUTRO
11 groovesEKAQAJS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Diamond on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, toms through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45 and toms through bars 46-47, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    117
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Black Diamond -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- E, K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-35 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 54-68 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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