Diamond Shotgun · Chicosci

179 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 8 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
DIAMOND SHOTGUN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 40, 43 and 29 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 14 sections: 62 keep time, 35 are fills, 62 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-71.

PART E
PART O
PART N
PART AF
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS12EAFNO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamond Shotgun?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Diamond Shotgun hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Diamond Shotgun?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 40, 43 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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