Center Mass · Twenty One Pilots

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 15-19 and 22-28, and 4 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
CENTER MASS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 72, 76, 78, 80, 81 and 7 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 80-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 4 sections: 58 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCLS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Center Mass?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Center Mass hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Center Mass?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 72, 76, 78, 80, 81 and 7 more.

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