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Figure It Out · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 20 OF 37
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 40-42)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBGS1UY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Figure It Out on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-37, hi-hat through bars 38-49, ride through bars 50-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 42-44 and 48, and 2 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 37, 41, 49, 55, 58 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-29 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-42 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-62 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Figure It Out?

108 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 Figure It Out hard to play on drums?

63 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?

82 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Figure It Out?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 37, 41, 49, 55, 58 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED