choker · Twenty One Pilots

122 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-34 -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
CHOKER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 90 and 98.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 7 sections: 88 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-34.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesACJS5S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is choker?

142 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 choker hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 choker?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 90 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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