Money for Nothing · Dire Strats

244 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 7:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-50 and 53-60, and 21 more places -- 82.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
MONEY FOR NOTHING · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 51, 61, 79, 95, 97, 123 and 10 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 4 sections: 213 keep time, 16 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-122.

PART B
OUTRO 2
4 groovesNBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Money for Nothing?

134 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 51, 61, 79, 95, 97, 123 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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