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Gravity · NOVELISTS

EXERCISE 3 OF 69
Groove S -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gravity on drums

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

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-43, toms through bars 44-45, snare through bars 46-48 and toms through bars 49-50, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---xx--|
T2 |----------------|--------------xx|
BD |--x--x----------|--xx-xx----x----|
Gravity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- T (a two-bar phrase), D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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