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

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCJDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode - Cover on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-56, ride through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-92 and ride through bars 93-100, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode - Cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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