Gravity · John Mayer

41 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 62 BPM, 3:54 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 8 and 10-14, and 2 more places -- 78.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 62 BPM
GRAVITY · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 2 sections: 28 keep time and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

62 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Gravity hard to play on drums?

38 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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