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Disorder · Joy Division

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBDNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disorder on drums

143 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-137, snare through bars 138-141 and kick and crashes through bars 142-143.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 50 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o---o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
HF |----x-----------|
Disorder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 39, 47, 79, 87, 95 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-124 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 122-138 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Disorder?

174 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 Disorder hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Disorder?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 39, 47, 79, 87, 95 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED