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Gravity · Holding Absence

EXERCISE 26 OF 58
Run N1 · Part N (bars 67-84)
91 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gravity on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-60, snare through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-112, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-33 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-70 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-99 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 95-117 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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