Million Dollar Houses (The Painter) · Pierce The Veil

113 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
MILLION DOLLAR HOUSES (THE PAINTER) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 21, 27, 47, 55, 95, 97 and 7 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 18 sections: 74 keep time, 13 are fills and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
BREAK 3
PART S
PART S13
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
15 groovesEBIOS+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)?

114 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 Million Dollar Houses (The Painter) hard to play on drums?

46 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Million Dollar Houses (The Painter)?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 21, 27, 47, 55, 95, 97 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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