Gravity · Wage War

157 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 42, and 21 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
GRAVITY · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 44, 48, 52, 60, 64 and 9 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 16 sections: 91 keep time, 15 are fills, 10 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART S4
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFIDN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gravity hard to play on drums?

44 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gravity?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 44, 48, 52, 60, 64 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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