Punching the Flowers · Death Cab For Cutie

116 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 10 more places -- 85.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
PUNCHING THE FLOWERS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 3 sections: 112 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-71.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Punching the Flowers?

148 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 Punching the Flowers hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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