Diary Of A Madman (D Standard) · Ozzy Osbourne

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-71, 73 and 75, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
DIARY OF A MADMAN (D STANDARD) · BARS 55-56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 26 and 22 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 28 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-79.

PART A
CHORUS
PART X
PART AA
PART AD
PART I
CHORUS 2
BREAK
8 groovesGXAAAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diary Of A Madman (D Standard)?

88 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 Diary Of A Madman (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

49 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Diary Of A Madman (D Standard)?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 26 and 22 more.

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