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The Diary Of Jane · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
19 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART B
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPHKYB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Diary Of Jane on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44 and snare through bars 45-48, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 36-37 and 39-41, and 2 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---------x---x---x-|
The Diary Of Jane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 25, 26, 28 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-35 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Diary Of Jane?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Diary Of Jane hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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 The Diary Of Jane?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 25, 26, 28 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED