Holiday In Cambodia (2) · Dead Kennedys

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 12 and 23, and 5 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA (2) · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 24, 34, 35, 49, 53 and 6 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-88.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEFBA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holiday In Cambodia (2)?

96 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 Holiday In Cambodia (2) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Holiday In Cambodia (2)?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 24, 34, 35, 49, 53 and 6 more.

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