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Diary Of The Working Man · Blackfoot

EXERCISE 11 OF 26
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 26-28)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diary Of The Working Man on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, ride through bars 28-34, toms through bars 35-39, hi-hat through bars 40-62 and kick and crashes through bars 63-64.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x----------x----|
Diary Of The Working Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, R -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 39-48 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED