Pulmonary Archery · Alexisonfire

104 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-45 and 77, and 2 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
PULMONARY ARCHERY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 85, 93 and 101.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 63 keep time, 4 are fills, 17 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-67.

PART A
PART S3
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBKS3A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pulmonary Archery?

124 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 Pulmonary Archery hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Pulmonary Archery?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 85, 93 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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