Gravity · NOVELISTS

151 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 39-41 and 72-74, and 3 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
GRAVITY · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 64 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 70 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent.

PART F
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART AL
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesSFS7ZD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Gravity?

18 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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