Helpless · Metallica

235 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 134-145, 155-166 and 184-192, and 5 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
HELPLESS · BAR 134
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 125 and 7 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 175 · LANDS ON BAR 176
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 183 · LANDS ON BAR 184

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 12 sections: 199 keep time, 13 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-169.

PART A
PART L
PART I
PART P
PART X
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABILAP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Helpless?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Helpless hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Helpless?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 125 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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