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Money · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 20 OF 45
Groove U
83 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
PART L
CHORUS
PART AB
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesMS8CABL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Money on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-38, ride through bars 39-77, toms through bars 78-79, ride through bars 80-84 and toms through bars 85-107, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    62
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Money -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 32, 35, 58, 59, 67, 71 and 17 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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