Chance · Dead Calm

64 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 2:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 1 more place -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CHANCE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 49, 51 and 8 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 53-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 3 sections: 38 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chance?

90 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Chance hard to play on drums?

48 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Chance?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 49, 51 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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