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Help is on The Way · Tobymac

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S7
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBS7S1IK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Help is on The Way on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, silence through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-59 and silence through bars 60-78, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 37-41 and 43-49, and 2 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 42, 85, 86 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-95 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 95-103 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Help is on The Way?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Help is on The Way hard to play on drums?

35 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Help is on The Way?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 42, 85, 86 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED