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Where The Streets Have No Name · U2

EXERCISE 11 OF 16
Groove H
107 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where The Streets Have No Name on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
30 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
16:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7 and toms through bars 8-121.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |x-------x-------|
FT |----xxxx----xxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Where The Streets Have No Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- G, E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-30 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-72 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED