The Big Money · Rush

177 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
THE BIG MONEY · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 16, 24, 25, 33, 41 and 16 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 14 sections: 111 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-106.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART T
PART W
PART AE
PART AL
PART AX
PART BH
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesCALS14AEBH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Big Money?

147 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 The Big Money hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Big Money?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 16, 24, 25, 33, 41 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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