Walking in my shoes live version · Depeche Mode

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 28, and 18 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 94 BPM
WALKING IN MY SHOES LIVE VERSION · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 50, 54, 68 and 20 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 98 keep time, 26 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-38.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART I
PART U
9 groovesCIOUH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking in my shoes live version?

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 Walking in my shoes live version 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.

How many fills are in Walking in my shoes live version?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 50, 54, 68 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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