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With or Without You · U2

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Fill at bar 84 (a small one)
130 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play With or Without You on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
40/100

toms through bars 1-55, hi-hat through bars 56-82, toms through bars 83-97, hi-hat through bars 98-99 and toms through bars 100-132.

The beat

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.

    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 100.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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?

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