figure you out · Citizen

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 26-31 and 33-39, and 2 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FIGURE YOU OUT · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 59, 60 and 76.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 4 sections: 62 keep time, 6 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesEAS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is figure you out?

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 you out 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 you out?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 59, 60 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Citizen drum parts

EVERY CITIZEN CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →