Diggy Diggy Hole · Wind Rose

162 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-49, 53-57 and 78-79, and 7 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DIGGY DIGGY HOLE · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 22, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34 and 30 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 14 sections: 100 keep time, 36 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesMJABE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diggy Diggy Hole?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Diggy Diggy Hole hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Diggy Diggy Hole?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 22, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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