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Walking in my shoes live version · Depeche Mode

EXERCISE 28 OF 68
Fill at bar 78 (a small one)
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0 / 68 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking in my shoes live version on drums

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.

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
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-86, ride through bars 87-94, hi-hat through bars 95-119, ride through bars 120-127 and toms through bars 128-131, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x--x----x-x-----|
Walking in my shoes live version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-75 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-88 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 83-105 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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