Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode - Cover · GRUE

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 13 and 15-21, and 7 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN - DEPECHE MODE - COVER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 34, 46, 66, 91 and 92.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 93 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-90.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesBCJDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode - Cover?

106 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 - Depeche Mode - Cover hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode - Cover?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 34, 46, 66, 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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