Choke · I Prevail

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 109 BPM
CHOKE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 4, 32, 44, 56, 68 and 2 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 13 sections: 50 keep time, 8 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-19.

PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNITAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Choke?

109 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 Choke hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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 8 times: bars 3, 4, 32, 44, 56, 68 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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