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With Or Without You · U2

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play With Or Without You on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-55, hi-hat through bars 56-84, toms through bars 85-97, hi-hat through bars 98-100, toms through bars 101-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-133.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
With Or Without You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 93-105 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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