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A Passage To Bangkok · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove G -- Chorus 2
0 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Passage To Bangkok on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25 and silence through bars 26-30, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-------x---|
A Passage To Bangkok -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-25 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED