Where The Streets Have No Name · U2

121 bars, 16:02, at 30 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
30 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
16:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30 and 34-38, and 13 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 30 BPM
WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 24 and 72.

LOOP · 30 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 6 sections: 107 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-120.

PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where The Streets Have No Name?

30 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Where The Streets Have No Name hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 16:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Where The Streets Have No Name?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 24 and 72.

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