Passive · A Perfect Circle

153 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 40 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
PASSIVE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 100, 120, 136, 151 and 152.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 151-152 · LANDS ON BAR 153 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 12 sections: 101 keep time, 5 are fills, 13 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-45.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCJFO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Passive?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Passive hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Passive?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 100, 120, 136, 151 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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