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I Ain't The One · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 21 OF 43
Groove Q -- Part Q
54 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Ain't The One on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-72, silence through bars 73-76 and snare through bars 77-78, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x---------x---x---|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x---------|
I Ain't The One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-17 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Break and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED