Diary of a Madman · Sun in the Coffin

177 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 47-53 and 63-69, and 15 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DIARY OF A MADMAN · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 15, 38, 46, 61, 62 and 4 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 18 sections: 125 keep time, 10 are fills, 19 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-123.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART O
CHORUS 4
BREAK 6
14 groovesGBDOS18+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diary of a Madman?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

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

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Diary of a Madman?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 15, 38, 46, 61, 62 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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