Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom) · Shinedown

136 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 36, and 10 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 113 BPM
DIAMOND EYES (BOOM-LAY BOOM-LAY BOOM) · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 26, 34, 35, 37, 39, 41 and 22 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 28 are fills, 17 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-22.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART E
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGCESS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)?

113 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 Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 26, 34, 35, 37, 39, 41 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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