Atmosphere · Joy Division

117 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-99 and 101-116 -- 94.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ATMOSPHERE · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 3 sections: 111 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-116.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Atmosphere?

110 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 Atmosphere hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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