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I Had Some Help · Morgan Wallen and Post Malone

I Had Some Help · Morgan Wallen and Post Malone
EXERCISE 9 OF 27
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 68-70)
72 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHNBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Had Some Help on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 2-69, kick and crashes through bars 70-73, toms through bars 74-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 27-32 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
I Had Some Help -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 53, 61, 74, 75 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 66-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 76-87 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Had Some Help?

128 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 I Had Some Help hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 I Had Some Help?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 53, 61, 74, 75 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED