Without You · Harry Nilsson

44 bars, 2:46, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 9 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 63 BPM
WITHOUT YOU · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 12, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 1 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 4 sections: 32 keep time, 7 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Without You?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 12, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED
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