243 · me

80 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:10 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 7-9 and 12-14, and 1 more place -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
243 · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 10, 15, 22, 26, 28 and 24 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 30 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-37.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART M
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBMRGZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 243?

140 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 243 hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 243?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 10, 15, 22, 26, 28 and 24 more.

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