Diamonds Are Forever · Shirley Bassey

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-32 and 45-52 -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 42.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1FLS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamonds Are Forever?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Are Forever hard to play on drums?

46 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Diamonds Are Forever?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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