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Same Old Situation · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 10 OF 40
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
80 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Same Old Situation on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-97, snare through bars 98-105, toms through bars 106-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-141.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-62 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 29-45 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-71 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-99 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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