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Choke · Bury Tomorrow

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove D -- Chorus
35 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
PART Q
PART T
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDOKTY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Choke on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and snare through bars 23-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40, 67-74 and 92-98 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx-x-x-xx---x-|
Choke -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 28, 32, 46 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- O, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-74 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Choke?

125 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 Choke hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Choke?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 28, 32, 46 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED