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New Person, Same Old Mistakes · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 5 OF 25
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 2-21)
66 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Person, Same Old Mistakes on drums

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

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-31, ride through bars 32-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49 and silence through bars 50-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--------x-----x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x--xx----x|
New Person, Same Old Mistakes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-36 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 28-36 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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