Cash Machine · Oliver Tree

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 and 43-49 -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CASH MACHINE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 58.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 2 are fills and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART E
PART G
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCGS1S6E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cash Machine?

100 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 Cash Machine hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cash Machine?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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