Diamonds · Princess Princess(プリンセス プリンセス)

135 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6 and 9-13, and 16 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DIAMONDS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 23 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 10 sections: 93 keep time, 29 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-74.

CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFAALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diamonds?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Diamonds?

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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