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Barrel Of A Gun · Depeche Mode

EXERCISE 7 OF 16
Join Part E to Verse 2 (bars 36-38)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, VERSE 2
COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART E
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
4 groovesCDS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Barrel Of A Gun on drums

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

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-107.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x----x|
Barrel Of A Gun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-89 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED