Gravity · Nuno Bettencourt

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36, 40-42 and 52-63, and 2 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
GRAVITY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 72 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-83.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

100 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?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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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