The Passenger · Iggy Pop

156 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPunk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-15 and 17-19, and 25 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE PASSENGER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 20, 50, 82, 110, 112 and 2 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 10 sections: 135 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-49.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Passenger?

132 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 The Passenger hard to play on drums?

64 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Passenger?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 20, 50, 82, 110, 112 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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