Walking In My Shoes · Depeche Mode

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 61-70 and 75-101 -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
WALKING IN MY SHOES · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 9 sections: 102 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-101.

VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEFGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking In My Shoes?

93 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 Walking In My Shoes hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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