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Money for Nothing · Dire Strats

Money for Nothing · Dire Strats
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove N -- Outro 2
0 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 191 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
OUTRO 2
4 groovesNBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Money for Nothing on drums

244 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 7:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-20, silence through bars 21-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-244.

The beat

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.

    28
    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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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