The Diplomat · Pig Destroyer

120 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 39, and 5 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
THE DIPLOMAT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 84, 88, 104, 106, 110 and 111.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 110-111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time, 7 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-63.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCTLAPI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Diplomat?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Diplomat hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 The Diplomat?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 84, 88, 104, 106, 110 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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