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Holy Diver · Dio

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGAOOAAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy Diver on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
75/100

ride through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, ride through bars 19-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 23-25, and 4 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 17, 22, 26, 30, 32 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- G, AO -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy Diver?

92 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 Holy Diver hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Holy Diver?

22 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 17, 22, 26, 30, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED