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choker · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
Groove J -- Outro 2
83 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesACJS5S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play choker on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, silence through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-73, silence through bars 74-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-122.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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