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Chokehold · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove C
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
PART L
PART O
PART J
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEAEWLO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chokehold on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-22, silence through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-57 and snare through bars 58-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 14 and 18, and 5 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x---------x-|
BD |x---------x-------------|
Chokehold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 40, 41 and 8 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-26 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-38 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chokehold?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Chokehold hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 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 Chokehold?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 40, 41 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED