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New Orleans Is The New Vietnam · Eyehategod

New Orleans Is The New Vietnam · Eyehategod
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EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove L -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART H, OUTRO
PART E
PART L
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesTLEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Orleans Is The New Vietnam on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-52, ride through bars 53-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20                               21
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|----x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-x-----|--------x---------x-----x--xxxxx|
BD |x-----x---x-x---------x-------x-|x-----x---x-x---------x---x-----|
New Orleans Is The New Vietnam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-34 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED