Money For Nothing · Dire Straits

243 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 7:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 42-44, and 39 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
MONEY FOR NOTHING · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 49, 58, 59, 75, 77, 93 and 16 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 10 sections: 201 keep time, 22 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesORADCS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Money For Nothing?

126 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 For Nothing hard to play on drums?

59 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 For Nothing?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 49, 58, 59, 75, 77, 93 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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