Without You · Air Supply

51 bars, 3:22, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 6 more places -- 79.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 60 BPM
WITHOUT YOU · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 31 and 39.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 4 sections: 42 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Without You?

60 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 Without You hard to play on drums?

37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Without You?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 31 and 39.

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