Unrest · Parkway Drive

98 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 9-14 and 21-22, and 3 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 228 BPM
UNREST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 26 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKAYPS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unrest?

228 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 Unrest hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Unrest?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 20 more.

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