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With A Little Help From My Friends · Joe Cocker

EXERCISE 17 OF 57
Groove R
54 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play With A Little Help From My Friends on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-16, silence through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-37 and snare through bars 38-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1...............2...............3...............
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
With A Little Help From My Friends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- N, S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-29 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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