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Gravity · Architects

EXERCISE 6 OF 63
Groove P (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART H
PART S12
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIUYVAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gravity on drums

132 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-52, hi-hat through bars 53-62, snare through bars 63-69 and silence through bars 70-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 77-92 and 116 -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Gravity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- U -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-41 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

175 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 Gravity hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED