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Money (Acoustic) · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 7 OF 28
Groove J -- Part J
85 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART R
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesCLS7RJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Money (Acoustic) on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 6:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
6:39
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-77, toms through bars 78-79, hi-hat through bars 80-104, toms through bars 105-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-126, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 24-33 and 37-54 -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....7.....
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x-----|
Money (Acoustic) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 59, 101, 102 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 58-67 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Money (Acoustic)?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Money (Acoustic) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 6:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 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 Money (Acoustic)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 59, 101, 102 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED