A Passage To Bangkok · Rush

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 9 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
A PASSAGE TO BANGKOK · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 21, 23, 34, 38, 42 and 8 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 13 sections: 45 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-67.

PART E
CHORUS
PART S6
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
11 groovesGXELS6+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Passage To Bangkok?

100 BPM, in 4/4, 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 A Passage To Bangkok hard to play on drums?

61 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Passage To Bangkok?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 21, 23, 34, 38, 42 and 8 more.

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