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With a Little Help from My Friends · The Beatles

EXERCISE 14 OF 22
Run I1 · Part I (bars 29-34)
62 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play With a Little Help from My Friends on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, ride through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-75.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-46 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED