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Center Mass · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 14 OF 20
Join Chorus to Break (bars 56-58)
61 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCLS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Center Mass on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-57, silence through bars 58-66, snare through bars 67-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-89.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x--X----x--X--x|
BD |x-xx-x-x--xx-x--|
Center Mass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-89 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED