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Diary Of A Madman (D Standard) · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove X -- Part X (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 57 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diary Of A Madman (D Standard) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24 and ride through bars 25-27, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55               56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------xxxx|x---------------|
HF |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
Diary Of A Madman (D Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- X, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED