Money · Pink Floyd

162 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 61-66 and 68-70, and 6 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 119 BPM
MONEY · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 32, 35, 58, 59, 67, 71 and 17 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time, 23 are fills, 11 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-54.

PART C
PART L
CHORUS
PART AB
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesMS8CABL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Money?

119 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 32, 35, 58, 59, 67, 71 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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