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Diggy Diggy Hole · Wind Rose

EXERCISE 9 OF 57
Fill at bar 26 (a small one)
105 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART A
PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diggy Diggy Hole on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-97, silence through bars 98-104, toms through bars 105-112, hi-hat through bars 113-120 and snare through bars 121-124, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    48
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Diggy Diggy Hole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-42 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-81 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-116 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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