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Mars For The Rich · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove E
37 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mars For The Rich on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33 and ride through bars 34-36, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |----x---x-------x---x---|
Mars For The Rich -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-20 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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