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EXERCISE 7 OF 29
Groove D
50 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIS6LVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Columbian Faction on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-73 and silence through bars 74-94.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
The Columbian Faction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED