With or Without You · U2

132 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-77, 79-81 and 83, and 16 more places -- 85.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 100.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars: 130 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-83.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is With or Without You?

110 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 With or Without You hard to play on drums?

40 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in With or Without You?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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