Diary Of The Working Man · Blackfoot

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-22 and 26 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
DIARY OF THE WORKING MAN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 27, 35, 40 and 63.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHRTP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diary Of The Working Man?

87 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 The Working Man hard to play on drums?

59 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Working Man?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 27, 35, 40 and 63.

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