Help on The way/Slipknot/franklins tower · Billy and the Kids

258 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 10:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
10:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-7 and 12, and 32 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
HELP ON THE WAY/SLIPKNOT/FRANKLINS TOWER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 23, 35 and 73 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

258 bars across 19 sections: 150 keep time, 79 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 202-225.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 7
9 groovesBHGQJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Help on The way/Slipknot/franklins tower?

98 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 on The way/Slipknot/franklins tower hard to play on drums?

52 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 10:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Help on The way/Slipknot/franklins tower?

22 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 23, 35 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED
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