Down By The Seaside · Led Zeppelin

174 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 33 and 36, and 20 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DOWN BY THE SEASIDE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 174.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 174
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 21 sections: 148 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-35.

PART H
CHORUS
PART AH
PART AO
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesRHPAHW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down By The Seaside?

140 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Down By The Seaside hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Down By The Seaside?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 174.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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