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Dazed And Confused · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove Q -- Part Q
60 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART C
PART H
PART Q
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesYS9HCQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dazed And Confused on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
9:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, toms through bars 18-19 and ride through bars 20-23, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------------|
Dazed And Confused -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-38 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-42 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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