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The Big Money · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Big Money on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-51, toms through bars 52-60, ride through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-79, snare through bars 80-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-105, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|----------x-----|
HH |x-xxxxxxxxo-----|xxxxxxx-x-------|
SD |------------x---|----------------|
BD |x-----x---------|x-----x---------|
The Big Money -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BH -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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