Figure Of Eight · Paul McCartney

149 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 13, and 46 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FIGURE OF EIGHT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 40, 48, 71, 79, 83 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 12 sections: 113 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART A
OUTRO
5 groovesBFACJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Figure Of Eight?

120 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 Of Eight hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Figure Of Eight?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 40, 48, 71, 79, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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