Aint My Bitch (C Standard) · Metallica

198 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 31 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
AINT MY BITCH (C STANDARD) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 10, 38, 43, 44, 47 and 30 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 10 sections: 117 keep time, 36 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-37.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
6 groovesEOCMK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aint My Bitch (C Standard)?

156 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 Aint My Bitch (C Standard) hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Aint My Bitch (C Standard)?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 10, 38, 43, 44, 47 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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