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Same Old Song And Dance · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Same Old Song And Dance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8 and snare through bars 9-123.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Same Old Song And Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- F, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-123 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED