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Passenger · Deftones

EXERCISE 14 OF 60
Groove H
100 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART J, PART F
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMDS1UX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Passenger on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, ride through bars 50-61, snare through bars 62-64, hi-hat through bars 65-81 and ride through bars 82-97, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50               51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x---|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|
Passenger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 32-50 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-166 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-101 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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