Iron Lung · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

270 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 116-118, 120-122 and 170-172, and 4 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IRON LUNG · BARS 116-117
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 19, 31, 33, 53, 55, 57 and 42 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

270 bars across 23 sections: 181 keep time, 48 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-94.

PART D
PART V
PART AG
PART BF
CHORUS 2
PART CO
PART AD
17 groovesBBBFADVD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Iron Lung?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Iron Lung hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 111 exercises over 44 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Iron Lung?

27 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 19, 31, 33, 53, 55, 57 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED
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