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Rest My Chemistry · Interpol

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGS1S5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rest My Chemistry on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-50, silence through bars 51-53, hi-hat through bars 54-68, silence through bars 69-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-94.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----xg------xg--|----xg----xg--xg|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|x-----x-x---x---|
Rest My Chemistry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-68 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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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