Atrocity Exhibition · Joy Division

131 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-130 -- 99.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ATROCITY EXHIBITION · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars: 130 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-130.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Atrocity Exhibition?

130 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 Atrocity Exhibition hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:02 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?

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

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