Rest · Green Day

48 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 2:54 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-16, and 3 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
REST · BARS 6-7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 20, 24 and 27.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 4 sections: 22 keep time, 6 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS4EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rest?

98 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Rest hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Rest?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 20, 24 and 27.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 48 BARS ANALYSED
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