Mars For The Rich · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

133 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 198 BPM, 4:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-25 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
MARS FOR THE RICH · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 23, 31, 55, 59 and 67.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time, 6 are fills and 49 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-89.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS9HCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mars For The Rich?

198 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mars For The Rich hard to play on drums?

39 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?

133 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Mars For The Rich?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 23, 31, 55, 59 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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