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Khe Sanh · Cold Chisel

Khe Sanh · Cold Chisel
EXERCISE 3 OF 9
Groove D
57 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Khe Sanh on drums

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

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-70.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xx---x--xx---|
Khe Sanh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED