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Down By The Seaside · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove R -- Chorus
0 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART H
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
PART AH
PART AO
PART H
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
13 groovesRHPAHW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down By The Seaside on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-42, silence through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-94, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |-------x---------------x-------x---------------x-------x--------|
SD |-------x-----------------------------------------------x--------|
BD |-----------------------x-------x--------------------------------|
Down By The Seaside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part W -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-52 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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