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In This Diary · The Ataris

EXERCISE 4 OF 38
Run B1 · Part B (bars 8-20)
108 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In This Diary on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-58, silence through bars 59-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-94, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-42 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-59 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 111-120 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 119-153 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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