Restless Heart Syndrome · Green Day

90 bars, 5:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-24 and 27-46 -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
RESTLESS HEART SYNDROME · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 47, 48 and 72.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 4 sections: 70 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-46.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGS1LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Restless Heart Syndrome?

72 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 Restless Heart Syndrome hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Restless Heart Syndrome?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 47, 48 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Green Day drum parts

EVERY GREEN DAY CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →