Description
Notes From John
BPM = 126. Wild part. Tom-heavy start, then a normal beat, a crazy verse beat, half-time choruses, double-time bridge intro.
For the player
John Dolmayan on the Toxicity cut — hit it cold. Stay under the vocal; leave the snare where it is. Feel flips hard through the chart: eighth-note tom groove at the top, crazy verse beat, half time in the choruses, double time in the Bridge Intro — ride each gear change, don’t sand them flat. Open hats are marked — bark the opens where John wrote the circle. Offbeat hats less emphasized where marked early (bar 17). Choked hats in Verse 1 flip the feel from the open bars around them. Intro opens with rests, then crash, then tom fills with ghosts and an L sticking — don’t flam the toms. Verse 1 at 0:46 (“Wake up…”); Chorus at 1:01 (“I don’t think…”) goes half time. Verse 2 at 1:26; Chorus at 1:41 — splash is marked at bar 58. Bridge Intro at 2:13 (“Father (father)…”) goes double time with R stickings and busy opens; Bridge at 2:28 (“Father, into your…”). Chorus at 2:50 (“Trust in my…”) rides into a rit. and an open-hat triplet at the end. Busy kick, fills between feels, and stickings stay as written. Listen first; at BPM = 126 the job is the feel, not the count-in.
Drum Sheet Music for “Chop Suey!” by System of a Down
