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Dancing Days · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 14 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
103 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 107 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing Days on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-107.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-----x-|
Dancing Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-85 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED