Choke Sermon · Lamb Of God

140 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 250 BPM, 3:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-24, 47-56 and 66-71, and 1 more place -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 250 BPM
CHOKE SERMON · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 13, 25, 29, 36 and 7 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 14 sections: 71 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-96.

PART E
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S11
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK 4
9 groovesS14FEPH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Choke Sermon?

250 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Choke Sermon hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sermon?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 13, 25, 29, 36 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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