I Had Some Help · Post Malone

94 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18, and 14 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
I HAD SOME HELP · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 33, 53, 57, 61, 76 and 6 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 67 keep time, 12 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCHKM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

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?

47 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 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 33, 53, 57, 61, 76 and 6 more.

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