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Passing By, Waiting to Observe v3 · holder

EXERCISE 18 OF 34
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 20-22)
49 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Passing By, Waiting to Observe v3 on drums

70 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 129 BPM, 1:24 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:24
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-41, hi-hat through bars 42-47 and toms through bars 48-51, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 4 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x--x-x-|
Passing By, Waiting to Observe v3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 23, 25 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 22-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Passing By, Waiting to Observe v3?

129 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Passing By, Waiting to Observe v3 hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 1:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Passing By, Waiting to Observe v3?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 23, 25 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED