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Gravity · Fleshgod Apocalypse

EXERCISE 7 OF 56
Join Part A to Part D (bars 8-10)
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PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesSADJAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gravity on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-35, toms through bars 36-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 50-56 and 147-153 -- 13% 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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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
FT |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Gravity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 49, 98, 99, 101, 115 and 5 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 20 sittings, about 22 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?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 49, 98, 99, 101, 115 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED