Gravity · Nuno Bettencourt

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

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

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

83

LENGTH

3:19

DIFFICULTY

51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-83.

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. Through Part C and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.