I Ain't The One · Lynyrd Skynyrd

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 8 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
I AIN'T THE ONE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 23, 40, 41, 49 and 8 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-32.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIEQNS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Ain't The One?

93 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Ain't The One hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Ain't The One?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 23, 40, 41, 49 and 8 more.

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