Stranglehold · Ted Nugent

151 bars, 8:23, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
8:23
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-23 and 25-31, and 18 more places -- 68.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
STRANGLEHOLD · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 20, 32, 44 and 6 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 10 sections: 121 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-93.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
7 groovesEZS1ACS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stranglehold?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Stranglehold hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 8:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Stranglehold?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 20, 32, 44 and 6 more.

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