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Choke Me · Alexandra Capitanescu

Choke Me · Alexandra Capitanescu
EXERCISE 14 OF 20
Join Part S7 to Chorus 2 (bars 58-60)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
8 groovesCAHBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Choke Me on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-40, silence through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-52 and snare through bars 53-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-26, 29-31 and 35-39, and 4 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 27, 28, 63, 64 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 31-42 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part S7 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-92 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Choke Me?

124 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 Me hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Me?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 27, 28, 63, 64 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED