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Faction · Erra

EXERCISE 21 OF 73
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
49 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faction on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, snare through bars 15-26, hi-hat through bars 27-35, snare through bars 36-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-59 and snare through bars 60-73, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|
Faction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- K, V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 11-28 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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