I Dug Up A Diamond · Mark Knopfler

72 bars, 3:58, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 15-21 and 23-28, and 6 more places -- 77.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
I DUG UP A DIAMOND · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 55, 59 and 72.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 3 sections: 65 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-54.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Dug Up A Diamond?

72 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 I Dug Up A Diamond hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 I Dug Up A Diamond?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 55, 59 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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