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Black Diamond · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 6 OF 72
Groove J -- Part J
83 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFJS12AA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Diamond on drums

192 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-64 and ride through bars 65-78, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 65-71 and 73-78, and 8 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Black Diamond -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-31 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-49 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 10 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Diamond?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

20 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED