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figure you out · Citizen

EXERCISE 9 OF 19
Groove G
64 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesEAS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play figure you out on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44 and snare through bars 45-76.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
figure you out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-45 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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