Transmission · Joy Division

131 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 54 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
TRANSMISSION · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 4 sections: 122 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-92.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
VERSE
4 groovesDCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Transmission?

158 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 Transmission hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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