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EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove N -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Choke on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25                               26
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---g---x-x-----|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x---x-x-x-x-x-|x-----x-----x-------x-x---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 8 times: bars 3, 4, 32, 44, 56, 68 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Break -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Break and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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