Money City Maniacs · Sloan

105 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-28 and 41-50 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MONEY CITY MANIACS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 39 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-50.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART R
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesBFS1S11Z+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Money City Maniacs?

130 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 City Maniacs hard to play on drums?

38 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Money City Maniacs?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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