Gravity · Holding Absence

183 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 16, and 8 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
GRAVITY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 40, 48, 64, 92, 100 and 14 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 19 sections: 91 keep time, 20 are fills, 35 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-83.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART G
OUTRO
12 groovesEDGNS12+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

172 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?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gravity?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 40, 48, 64, 92, 100 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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