Viet Nam · Minutemen

60 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 1:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 31-37, and 1 more place -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
VIET NAM · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 60.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 6 sections: 49 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-45.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Viet Nam?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Viet Nam hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Viet Nam?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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