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

EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART G
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART Q
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
9 groovesBHGQJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Help on The way/Slipknot/franklins tower on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
10:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24, ride through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-40, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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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 on The way/Slipknot/franklins tower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-110 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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