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.

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

TEMPO

183 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

138

LENGTH

3:02

DIFFICULTY

59/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, toms through bars 27-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-53, ride through bars 54-62 and toms through bars 63-70, and 9 more changes after that.

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.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x---x---x---|x-------x-----x-|
HH |----------------|----o-----------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---x-------|x-------x-----x-|
HF |----------------|--------g-------|

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

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- V, BI -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through Part V and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
8. Through Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.