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Holiday In Cambodia · Dead Kennedys

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove G -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGEJYB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holiday In Cambodia on drums

184 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 2-60, snare through bars 61-69, hi-hat through bars 70-113, snare through bars 114-122, hi-hat through bars 123-150 and ride through bars 151-157, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-35 and 37-43, and 11 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Holiday In Cambodia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 28, 36, 44 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-32 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-90 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-131 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holiday In Cambodia?

197 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 Holiday In Cambodia hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Holiday In Cambodia?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 28, 36, 44 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED