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Diamond train · Karmanjakah

EXERCISE 12 OF 69
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
111 / 327 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 2
PART B
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diamond train on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
327
LENGTH
7:31
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-41, silence through bars 42-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-84, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    249
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Diamond train -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- AO, AM -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-122 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-89 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-81 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-115 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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