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I Ain't Superstitious · Megadeth

EXERCISE 7 OF 37
Groove T -- Part T
47 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART T
OUTRO
6 groovesIGUCT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Ain't Superstitious on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
85/100

ride through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-35, toms through bars 36-39, snare through bars 40-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-47, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    40
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
SD |------------------------------------x--------x--|
BD |------------x-------x---------------------------|
I Ain't Superstitious -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-87 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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