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Help On The Way/ Slipknot! · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 3 OF 69
Groove A -- Part A
68 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
VERSE
PART F
PART N
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFJAT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
JOIN · 12
LINK · 12
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Help On The Way/ Slipknot! on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-130, ride through bars 131-133 and hi-hat through bars 134-166.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 25-50 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-67 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-85 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-95 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-105 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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