Dancing Days · Led Zeppelin

107 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 13 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
DANCING DAYS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 6 sections: 98 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-81.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dancing Days?

116 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 Dancing Days hard to play on drums?

56 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?

107 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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