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Aint My Bitch (C Standard) · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 51 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
6 groovesEOCMK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aint My Bitch (C Standard) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-37, snare through bars 38-42, toms through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-72, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Aint My Bitch (C Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-104 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 107-117 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 122-139 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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