Suffer Well · Depeche Mode

119 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-55 and 64-103 -- 78.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SUFFER WELL · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 6 sections: 113 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-55.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suffer Well?

130 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 Suffer Well hard to play on drums?

44 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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