Restless · High Spirits

149 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 36 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
RESTLESS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 35, 43, 47, 62 and 4 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 10 sections: 114 keep time, 11 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-126.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART Q
6 groovesDAKQS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Restless?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Restless hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 35, 43, 47, 62 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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