With Or Without You · U2

133 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-47, 49 and 51, and 21 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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 116.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 6 sections: 121 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-53.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACDGFill 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?

47 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 With Or Without You?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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