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Figure Of Eight · Paul McCartney

EXERCISE 10 OF 44
Groove D
109 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Figure Of Eight on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-87, snare through bars 88-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-149.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Figure Of Eight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-57 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 38-58 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-124 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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