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Restless · High Spirits

Restless · High Spirits
EXERCISE 6 OF 37
Groove E
89 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Restless on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-83, toms through bars 84-100, hi-hat through bars 101-108, ride through bars 109-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-119, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Restless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-86 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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