Digital · Joy Division

117 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-116 -- 98.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 175 BPM
DIGITAL · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 2 sections: 114 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-117.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Digital?

175 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 Digital hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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