Vietnam · Asta Kask

74 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-16, 19-24 and 27, and 5 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
VIETNAM · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 48, 49 and 50.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 3 sections: 66 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-27.

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

Questions

What BPM is Vietnam?

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

Is Vietnam hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Vietnam?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 48, 49 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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