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.

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

TEMPO

96 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

63

LENGTH

2:38

DIFFICULTY

46/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-63.

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 34-54 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.