Same Old Story · Pennywise

128 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7 and 9, and 34 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
SAME OLD STORY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 40, 72, 80, 82, 84 and 4 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 106 keep time, 10 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-71.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAIDGS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Same Old Story?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Same Old Story hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 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 Same Old Story?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 40, 72, 80, 82, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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