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Rising Above Gravity · Cytocyst

EXERCISE 24 OF 45
2-bar fill at bar 42
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0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rising Above Gravity on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-53 and toms through bars 54-55, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Rising Above Gravity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED