With a Little Help from My Friends · The Beatles

75 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 22-23 and 25-28, and 2 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 20.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 9 sections: 61 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-74.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDICJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is With a Little Help from My Friends?

112 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 With a Little Help from My Friends hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 With a Little Help from My Friends?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 20.

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