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243 · me
EXERCISE 20 OF 56
2-bar fill at bar 41
46 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 243 on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2              3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |--x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-|
SD |----------x---|------------x-|
BD |x-xxx-x-xx--x-|x-xxx-x-xxx---|
243 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-43 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED