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The Old Apartment · Barenaked Ladies

The Old Apartment · Barenaked Ladies
EXERCISE 16 OF 23
Fill at bar 53 (a small one)
58 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Old Apartment on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-57 and ride through bars 58-65.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-48 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED