Rising Above Gravity · Cytocyst

87 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18, and 17 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
RISING ABOVE GRAVITY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 23 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 5 sections: 43 keep time, 30 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rising Above Gravity?

145 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 Rising Above Gravity hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rising Above Gravity?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 23 more.

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