Without You · Mötley Crüe

64 bars, 4:14, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 13 and 15, and 12 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
WITHOUT YOU · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 16, 23, 30 and 8 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 4 sections: 42 keep time, 14 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-11.

CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBROFill 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?

43 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?

64 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Without You?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 16, 23, 30 and 8 more.

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