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

EXERCISE 13 OF 13
Play the whole song with the record
104 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 111 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBS1ES4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the best aint no rest for the wicked on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-111.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
the best aint no rest for the wicked -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 54-111 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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