Same Old Song And Dance · Aerosmith

123 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 22-33 and 36-37, and 7 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 89 keep time, 1 is a fill and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-50.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Same Old Song And Dance?

135 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 Song And Dance hard to play on drums?

41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Song And Dance?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

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