I Have Not A Chance · Alternative Competition 3

152 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 79-80, 82-83 and 85-86, and 10 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I HAVE NOT A CHANCE · BARS 82-83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 30, 38, 42, 46, 55, 59 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 17 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-104.

PART B
PART E
PART G
PART B
PART N
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
11 groovesOBLGR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Have Not A Chance?

120 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 Have Not A Chance hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Have Not A Chance?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 30, 38, 42, 46, 55, 59 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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