Still The Same · Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band

95 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 27-40 and 42-48, and 7 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
STILL THE SAME · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 25, 57 and 85.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 3 sections: 82 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-56.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS2CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still The Same?

116 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 Still The Same hard to play on drums?

42 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?

95 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Still The Same?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 25, 57 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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