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

EXERCISE 7 OF 49
Run E1 · Part E (bars 5-11)
78 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Float Along – Fill Your Lungs on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
41/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-10, ride through bars 11-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43 and ride through bars 44-53, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x---------x---|
BD |x---------x---------|
Float Along – Fill Your Lungs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AD -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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