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The Passenger (officiel) · Iggy Pop

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove D -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Passenger (officiel) on drums

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

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, ride through bars 41-50, hi-hat through bars 51-155 and ride through bars 156-157.

The beat

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.

    16
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x---x-------x-----|
BD |x---x-----------x-----x-|
The Passenger (officiel) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-28 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-103 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED