Diamonds And Rust · Judas Priest

100 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 31-33 and 35-37, and 4 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
DIAMONDS AND RUST · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 38, 40 and 19 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 26 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-89.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKHAJQC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamonds And Rust?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Diamonds And Rust hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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 Diamonds And Rust?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 38, 40 and 19 more.

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