Personal Jesus · Depeche Mode

158 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-30, 38-39 and 46-47, and 19 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PERSONAL JESUS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 11 sections: 137 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-80.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART L
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCELJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Personal Jesus?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Personal Jesus hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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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