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Stranglehold · Ted Nugent

Stranglehold · Ted Nugent
EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 6-8)
101 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
7 groovesEZS1ACS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stranglehold on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
8:23
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-110 and snare through bars 111-114, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------------------x---x-------x-------------------x---|
Stranglehold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 109-128 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED