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Unrest · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 40 OF 58
Join Part S to Part A (bars 57-59)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, PART A
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unrest on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24 and snare through bars 25-40, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, E (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-52 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-59 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-71 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED