Never Let Me Down Again · Depeche Mode

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13, 15-33 and 35-41, and 4 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 5 sections: 108 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-45.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Let Me Down Again?

107 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 Never Let Me Down Again hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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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