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Take A Chance On Me · ABBA

EXERCISE 24 OF 24
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
VERSE
PART C
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART C
VERSE 3
OUTRO
5 groovesDICBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take A Chance On Me on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 22-28 and 30-34, and 5 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Take A Chance On Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-39 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-49 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-102 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Take A Chance On Me?

106 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Take A Chance On Me hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Take A Chance On Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED