Help! · The Beatles

106 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-36, 39-40 and 57-68, and 3 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
HELP! · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 56 and 88.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time, 3 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-55.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDAGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Help!?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Help! hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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!?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 56 and 88.

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