The Pass · Rush

138 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-38, 40-41 and 81-85, and 3 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
THE PASS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 33, 39, 43, 45, 71 and 18 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 98 keep time, 24 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART W
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIGBDM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Pass?

116 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Pass hard to play on drums?

50 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 The Pass?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 33, 39, 43, 45, 71 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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