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Pulmonary Archery · Alexisonfire

EXERCISE 12 OF 24
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 45-47)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pulmonary Archery on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-85, snare through bars 86-93 and hi-hat through bars 94-104.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Pulmonary Archery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-47 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 47-87 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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