New Person, Same Old Mistakes · Tame Impala

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:57 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 8 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
NEW PERSON, SAME OLD MISTAKES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 17 sections: 81 keep time, 1 is a fill and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART R
BREAK 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBJRS15G+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Person, Same Old Mistakes?

76 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 New Person, Same Old Mistakes hard to play on drums?

57 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in New Person, Same Old Mistakes?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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