Disorder Ver. 2 · Joy Division

61 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 1:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 23 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
DISORDER VER. 2 · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 39 and 47.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars: 58 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-38.

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

Questions

What BPM is Disorder Ver. 2?

168 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 Ver. 2 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Disorder Ver. 2?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 39 and 47.

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