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Diary of a Madman · Sun in the Coffin

Diary of a Madman · Sun in the Coffin
EXERCISE 8 OF 44
Join Part B to Part D (bars 28-30)
109 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diary of a Madman on drums

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.

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
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-14, snare through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-29, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
Diary of a Madman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-84 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-107 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 122-134 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 135-161 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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