Diamonds And Why Men Buy Them · Pierce The Veil

138 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-46 and 77-81, and 5 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 183 BPM
DIAMONDS AND WHY MEN BUY THEM · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 40 more.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 183 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 46 are fills, 33 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-128.

CHORUS
PART V
PART AC
PART V
PART AW
PART AX
OUTRO
10 groovesIVACBIAX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamonds And Why Men Buy Them?

183 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 Diamonds And Why Men Buy Them 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Why Men Buy Them?

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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