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I Dug Up A Diamond · Mark Knopfler

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 15 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Dug Up A Diamond on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-58, ride through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-72.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
I Dug Up A Diamond -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 56-72 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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