Choke On It · Death

235 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 7:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-48 and 131-146, and 1 more place -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
CHOKE ON IT · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 50 and 37 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 16 sections: 149 keep time, 43 are fills, 21 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-186.

PART A
CHORUS
PART T
PART Z
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART AT
CHORUS 3
PART T
12 groovesITZAAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Choke On It?

133 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 On It hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

235 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Choke On It?

26 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 50 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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