Faction · Erra

106 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 36-37 and 40-41, and 7 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
FACTION · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 27 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 13 sections: 43 keep time, 33 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-89.

PART D
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AD
PART AK
PART S10
PART K
OUTRO
12 groovesKSVIAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faction?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Faction hard to play on drums?

59 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Faction?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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