Diamond Eyes · Deftones

86 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 77 BPM, 3:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 38, 46, 60 and 2 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 8 are fills, 7 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFSCS1D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamond Eyes?

77 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Diamond Eyes hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Diamond Eyes?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 38, 46, 60 and 2 more.

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