Float Along – Fill Your Lungs · King GIzzard & The Lizard Wizard

168 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 5:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 59 and 64, and 18 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FLOAT ALONG – FILL YOUR LUNGS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 34-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 14 sections: 117 keep time, 15 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-126.

PART J
PART H
PART J
PART AD
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesGJS14ADH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Float Along – Fill Your Lungs?

140 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Float Along – Fill Your Lungs hard to play on drums?

41 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Float Along – Fill Your Lungs?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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