Khe Sanh · Cold Chisel

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-41, 43-44 and 47-52, and 3 more places -- 84.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
KHE SANH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 53.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-44.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Khe Sanh?

84 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 Khe Sanh hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Khe Sanh?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 53.

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