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Viet Nam · Minutemen

Viet Nam · Minutemen
EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Groove I
54 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Viet Nam on drums

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.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
98/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-|x---x-x-x---o---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----g---------x-------|--------x---------------x-----g-|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x---------|x-----x---------x-----x---------|
Viet Nam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-57 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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