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Vietnow · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 16 OF 47
Run J1 · Part J (bars 37-52)
81 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART R
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesDJRNAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vietnow on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, snare through bars 69-75 and kick and crashes through bars 76-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 11, and 11 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Vietnow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 36, 40, 43, 44, 60 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vietnow?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Vietnow hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor 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 Vietnow?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 36, 40, 43, 44, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED