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Passenger · Periphery

EXERCISE 16 OF 41
Join Part K to Chorus 2 (bars 30-32)
68 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Passenger on drums

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

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-55, toms through bars 56-58 and snare through bars 59-107.

The beat

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.

    2                                                3
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x--------x--|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-x-x-----------x--x-----x--x--x--|x-----x-----x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----------x--x--|
Passenger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-27 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED