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New Dawn Fades · Joy Division

EXERCISE 5 OF 17
Fill at bar 14 and 34 (a small one)
70 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Dawn Fades on drums

90 bars, 4:48, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
83/100

ride through bars 1-87 and snare through bars 88-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 16 more places -- 75.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-x-----x---x---x-|
New Dawn Fades -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 14, 34, 42, 50, 62 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is New Dawn Fades?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is New Dawn Fades hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in New Dawn Fades?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 14, 34, 42, 50, 62 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED