New Orleans Is The New Vietnam · Eyehategod

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-21, 24-25 and 35-36, and 3 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
NEW ORLEANS IS THE NEW VIETNAM · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 17, 21, 32 and 11 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 6 sections: 52 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-61.

PART E
PART L
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesTLEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Orleans Is The New Vietnam?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 New Orleans Is The New Vietnam hard to play on drums?

69 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?

77 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in New Orleans Is The New Vietnam?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 17, 21, 32 and 11 more.

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