With A Little Help From My Friends · Joe Cocker

126 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 5:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 32-33 and 37, and 12 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 30, 57, 66, 67, 68 and 14 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 20 are fills, 5 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-55.

PART D
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesNAAS4DBD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is With A Little Help From My Friends?

70 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is With A Little Help From My Friends hard to play on drums?

54 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 With A Little Help From My Friends?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 30, 57, 66, 67, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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