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Choke On It · Death

EXERCISE 9 OF 95
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
98 / 235 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Choke On It on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-51, toms through bars 52-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64, ride through bars 65-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-75 and toms through bars 76-80, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-25 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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