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Punching the Flowers · Death Cab For Cutie

EXERCISE 5 OF 12
Groove D
105 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Punching the Flowers on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED