Shadowplay · Joy Division

135 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-49, 51-53 and 55-57, and 10 more places -- 77.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SHADOWPLAY · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 4 sections: 121 keep time, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-54.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadowplay?

140 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 Shadowplay hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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