World In My Eyes · Depeche Mode

133 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-35 and 41-55, and 3 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WORLD IN MY EYES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 133.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 133
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
OUTRO
VERSE 4
5 groovesBDES1FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is World In My Eyes?

122 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 World In My Eyes hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in World In My Eyes?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 133.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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