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Same Old Story · Pennywise

EXERCISE 6 OF 29
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 1-24)
86 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Same Old Story on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38 and snare through bars 39-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 32-128 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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