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Money Talks · AC/DC

EXERCISE 4 OF 28
Fill at bar 28, 56 and 84 (a small one)
69 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCENS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Money Talks on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-64, snare through bars 65-68, hi-hat through bars 69-111 and kick and crashes through bars 112-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-20 and 22-24, and 14 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Money Talks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 56, 62, 66, 68, 84 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Money Talks?

120 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 Talks hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Money Talks?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 56, 62, 66, 68, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED