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Without You · Badfinger

EXERCISE 15 OF 19
Hold Groove F for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 21-28)
68 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS2AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Without You on drums

80 bars, 4:42, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
39/100

ride through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 19 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Without You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 24, 26, 36, 40, 46 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- F -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Without You?

68 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?

39 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Without You?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 24, 26, 36, 40, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED