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Old Habits Die Hard · Mick Jagger

Old Habits Die Hard · Mick Jagger
EXERCISE 24 OF 27
Join Part E to Part I (bars 95-97)
89 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART I
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEAIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Old Habits Die Hard on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-74, ride through bars 75-82, hi-hat through bars 83-108 and ride through bars 109-116.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Old Habits Die Hard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-91 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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