Dazed And Confused · Led Zeppelin

142 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 9:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
9:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-79, 81 and 84, and 3 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DAZED AND CONFUSED · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 18-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 9 sections: 94 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-110.

PART C
PART H
PART Q
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesYS9HCQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dazed And Confused?

80 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Dazed And Confused hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 9:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dazed And Confused?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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