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

EXERCISE 37 OF 54
Groove U
101 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom) on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-71 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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