The Old Apartment · Barenaked Ladies

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 15-19 and 21-23, and 4 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
THE OLD APARTMENT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 24, 47, 53, 57 and 62.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 4 sections: 53 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Old Apartment?

80 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 The Old Apartment hard to play on drums?

53 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 The Old Apartment?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 24, 47, 53, 57 and 62.

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