The Passenger (officiel) · Iggy Pop

157 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPunk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 16-19 and 56-62, and 14 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE PASSENGER (OFFICIEL) · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 20 and 54.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 17 sections: 131 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-98.

PART G
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGEIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Passenger (officiel)?

125 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 (officiel) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Passenger (officiel)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 20 and 54.

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