The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing · Not Animals As Leaders

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-44 -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING AND THE VALUE OF NOTHING · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16 and 15 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 5 sections: 12 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-43.

COUNT-IN
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS5FXS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing?

100 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 The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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