Dirty Diana · Michael Jackson

72 bars, 4:26, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopElectronicUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 17-24 and 41-48 -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 65 BPM
DIRTY DIANA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 61 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-66.

PART A
PART D
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBADHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirty Diana?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dirty Diana hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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