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Policy Of Truth · Depeche Mode

EXERCISE 18 OF 25
Groove J -- Outro
127 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADFIJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Policy Of Truth on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 17-24 and 39-46, and 1 more place -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x---x-----|
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |--x---x---g---x-|
Policy Of Truth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-42 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Policy Of Truth?

113 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 Policy Of Truth hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED