Dear Diary · Breakdown Of Sanity

109 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-79, 81-83 and 85-87, and 1 more place -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DEAR DIARY · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 31 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 52 keep time, 37 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-47.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART R
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNARAJU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Diary?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dear Diary hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Dear Diary?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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