Throatlock · Bdee

88 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 19 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THROATLOCK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 5 sections: 61 keep time, 2 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART F
OUTRO
4 groovesAFS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Throatlock?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Throatlock hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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 Throatlock?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.

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