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Million Dollar Houses (The Painter) · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 13 OF 56
Run C1 · Part C (bars 18-21)
47 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Million Dollar Houses (The Painter) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, snare through bars 28-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-36, snare through bars 37-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Million Dollar Houses (The Painter) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- B, E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-22 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 27-43 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-88 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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