Tattooed Millionaire · Bruce Dickinson

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 14 more places -- 65.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TATTOOED MILLIONAIRE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 56, 104, 120, 129, 130 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 129-132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 4 sections: 117 keep time, 8 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-47.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tattooed Millionaire?

130 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 Tattooed Millionaire hard to play on drums?

41 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Tattooed Millionaire?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 56, 104, 120, 129, 130 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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