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I Have Not A Chance · Alternative Competition 3

EXERCISE 27 OF 54
Groove N -- Part N
107 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Have Not A Chance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-30, snare through bars 31-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55, ride through bars 56-59 and snare through bars 60-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    82                                               83
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
HH |o-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------------------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|x-----------------x--x--------------------x-----|
I Have Not A Chance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- Q, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-27 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-56 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-60 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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