Useless · Depeche Mode

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-76 and 93-116 -- 86.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
USELESS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 3 sections: 114 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-76.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Useless?

94 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 Useless hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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