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Chance · Dead Calm
EXERCISE 16 OF 17
Run H1 · Outro 2 (bars 47-64)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chance on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-44, hi-hat through bars 45-54 and ride through bars 55-64.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |X-x-x-X-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Chance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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