Passenger · Deftones

170 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-56, 58-61 and 82-97, and 6 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
PASSENGER · BARS 50-51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 24, 25, 32, 33, 40, 41 and 25 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time, 31 are fills, 10 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-57.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMDS1UX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Passenger?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Passenger hard to play on drums?

56 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Passenger?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 24, 25, 32, 33, 40, 41 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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