Same Old Situation · Mötley Crüe

141 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 15-24 and 26, and 14 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SAME OLD SITUATION · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 41, 77, 97, 113 and 140.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 101 keep time, 6 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-29.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJBPE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Same Old Situation?

140 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 Same Old Situation hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Same Old Situation?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 41, 77, 97, 113 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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