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Money For Nothing · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Groove AA
183 / 243 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AD
PART C
CHORUS
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesORADCS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Money For Nothing on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-18, silence through bars 19-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-243.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Money For Nothing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- O, R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 138-162 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 147-173 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 170-227 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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