Achilles Last Stand · Led Zeppelin

337 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 9:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
337
LENGTH
9:26
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 50 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ACHILLES LAST STAND · BAR 29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 26, 46, 48, 50, 68 and 31 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

337 bars across 27 sections: 240 keep time, 37 are fills, 10 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-127.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART AM
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
15 groovesICAMBJAS+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Achilles Last Stand?

145 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 Achilles Last Stand hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

337 bars, about 9:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 32 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor 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 Achilles Last Stand?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 26, 46, 48, 50, 68 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 337 BARS ANALYSED
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