The Columbian Faction · Volumes

94 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 4:06 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-28, 30-32 and 34, and 1 more place -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE COLUMBIAN FACTION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 56, 60, 64 and 68.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 6 sections: 56 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-37.

CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIS6LVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Columbian Faction?

132 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Columbian Faction hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 The Columbian Faction?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 56, 60, 64 and 68.

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