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Dear Diary · Breakdown Of Sanity

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove AJ -- Part AJ
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Diary on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42 and snare through bars 43-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xx-xx-xxx-xx-x|
Dear Diary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- AJ -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-31 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part AJ and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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