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The Passenger · Iggy Pop

EXERCISE 23 OF 34
Chorus 2 into Part C with the record (bars 75-82)
150 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART C
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Passenger on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----------x-----x--|
The Passenger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-83 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-64 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-144 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-91 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 88-133 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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