I Ain't Superstitious · Megadeth

105 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 25, and 12 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
I AIN'T SUPERSTITIOUS · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 13, 37, 38, 39, 42 and 9 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 66 keep time, 15 are fills, 17 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART T
OUTRO
6 groovesIGUCT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Ain't Superstitious?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Ain't Superstitious hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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 I Ain't Superstitious?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 13, 37, 38, 39, 42 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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