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Diary Of A Madman · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 13 OF 61
Groove H -- Chorus
54 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART X
PART AB
PART J
CHORUS 2
BREAK
7 groovesHXBABJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diary Of A Madman on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 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
131
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19, ride through bars 20-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-25, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 60, and 10 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------fggg|
BD |------------x---|
HF |g---g---g---g---|
Diary Of A Madman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 27 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Diary Of A Madman?

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 hard to play on drums?

55 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 27 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED