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Dear Diary, · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 9 OF 43
Run A1 · Part A (bars 5-12)
30 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
PART K
BREAK
PART V
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHKYAS9+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Diary, on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, snare through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37, toms through bars 38-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 27 and 41-44, and 1 more place -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
Dear Diary, -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 38, 39, 40, 64, 66 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-24 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-60 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear Diary,?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dear Diary,?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 38, 39, 40, 64, 66 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED