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Diamond Eyes · Deftones

EXERCISE 18 OF 25
Join Chorus to Break (bars 49-51)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
BREAK
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFSCS1D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diamond Eyes on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-20, 31-37 and 39-40, and 4 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15                       16
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3...
CC |x-----------------------|------------x---x---|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---|x-x-x---x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-------x---x-|x-----x----xx---x---|
Diamond Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-61 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED