the best aint no rest for the wicked · Cage the elephant

111 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 43-55 and 57-66, and 3 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
THE BEST AINT NO REST FOR THE WICKED · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 8 sections: 101 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-95.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBS1ES4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the best aint no rest for the wicked?

156 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 the best aint no rest for the wicked hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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