Help On The Way/ Slipknot! · Grateful Dead

166 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 19-21 and 23-24, and 10 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
HELP ON THE WAY/ SLIPKNOT! · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 12, 17, 25, 29, 34 and 29 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time and 35 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-45.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
VERSE
PART F
PART N
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesDFJAT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Help On The Way/ Slipknot!?

90 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! hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Help On The Way/ Slipknot!?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 12, 17, 25, 29, 34 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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