Dead Souls · Joy Division

142 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 27 and 29, and 39 more places -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
DEAD SOULS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars: 142 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-142.

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

Questions

What BPM is Dead Souls?

121 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 Dead Souls hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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