Passenger · Periphery

107 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-12, and 7 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PASSENGER · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 33, 56, 66 and 107.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 10 sections: 91 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-90.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesIBABOK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Passenger?

125 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 Passenger hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Passenger?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 33, 56, 66 and 107.

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