Restless And Wild · Accept

152 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12, 18-20 and 26-29, and 9 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
RESTLESS AND WILD · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 24, 25 and 31 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 8 sections: 100 keep time, 38 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART W
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesENWCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Restless And Wild?

145 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 Restless And Wild hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Restless And Wild?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 24, 25 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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