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Choke Sermon · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Groove I
81 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Choke Sermon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, snare through bars 58-74 and silence through bars 75-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |------x-----------------|
HH |o-----------o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Choke Sermon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-38 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 34-73 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-81 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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