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Passion · The Arrs

Passion · The Arrs
EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove L -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 55 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesLGDOB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Passion on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-51, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-45, 59-62 and 95-98 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38                               39
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---------x---------------|xxx-xxx---------xx-x----xx-x----|
Passion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 36, 37 and 13 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-29 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Break and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-50 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-54 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Passion?

135 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 Passion hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Passion?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 36, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED