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Babe I'm Gonna Leave You · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 13 OF 24
Groove G
107 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART B
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEIBS3S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Babe I'm Gonna Leave You on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-36, toms through bars 37-45, silence through bars 46-51 and snare through bars 52-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-68, 70 and 72, and 3 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x-x-------|
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 44, 104, 128 and 156.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-45 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 69-105 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 109-132 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Babe I'm Gonna Leave You?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Babe I'm Gonna Leave You hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Babe I'm Gonna Leave You?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 44, 104, 128 and 156.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED