Barrel Of A Gun · Depeche Mode

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27 and 29, and 15 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARREL OF A GUN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 6 sections: 91 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-73.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
4 groovesCDS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Barrel Of A Gun?

82 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 Barrel Of A Gun hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Barrel Of A Gun?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

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