Gravity · A Perfect Circle

108 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 4:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-60, 62-65 and 67-70, and 1 more place -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
GRAVITY · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 22, 34, 38 and 12 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 11 sections: 39 keep time, 18 are fills, 6 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

PART F
PART H
PART F
PART H
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS11HFWO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

125 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Gravity hard to play on drums?

42 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 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 Gravity?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 22, 34, 38 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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