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Help Herself · Bbno$

Help Herself · Bbno$
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1DS5S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Help Herself on drums

122 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-96, silence through bars 97-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 41-56 and 59-79, and 3 more places -- 87.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Help Herself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 31-58 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Help Herself?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Help Herself hard to play on drums?

57 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED