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Money Changes Everything · Cyndi Lauper

EXERCISE 10 OF 15
Fill at bar 101 (a small one)
146 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Money Changes Everything on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-24, 27-29 and 31-32, and 17 more places -- 79.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Money Changes Everything -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 33, 63, 71, 77, 101 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Money Changes Everything?

120 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 Money Changes Everything 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Money Changes Everything?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 33, 63, 71, 77, 101 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED