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Help! · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Help! on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-74 and ride through bars 75-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |----x-------x---|
Help! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-88 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED