Diamond train · Karmanjakah

327 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 7:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
327
LENGTH
7:31
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 249-251, 253-257 and 259, and 17 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
DIAMOND TRAIN · BAR 249
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 18, 25, 26, 28, 30 and 12 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

327 bars across 20 sections: 125 keep time, 18 are fills, 137 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-80.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART M
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAAMMAOAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamond train?

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

Is Diamond train hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

327 bars, about 7:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 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 train?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 18, 25, 26, 28, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 327 BARS ANALYSED
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