Rest My Chemistry · Interpol

94 bars, 4:59, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 18 and 22, and 10 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
REST MY CHEMISTRY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 57, 86 and 90.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time, 5 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGS1S5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rest My Chemistry?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Rest My Chemistry hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rest My Chemistry?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 57, 86 and 90.

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