In This Diary · The Ataris

159 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 37, and 13 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
IN THIS DIARY · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 52, 78, 94 and 7 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 127-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 18 sections: 92 keep time, 13 are fills, 31 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-20.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCBLGS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In This Diary?

180 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 In This Diary hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 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 In This Diary?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 52, 78, 94 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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