Old Habits Die Hard · Mick Jagger

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 45-48 and 50-56, and 3 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
OLD HABITS DIE HARD · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 49, 57, 90, 102 and 1 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 14 sections: 81 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEAIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Habits Die Hard?

110 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 Old Habits Die Hard hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Old Habits Die Hard?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 49, 57, 90, 102 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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