Fool In The Rain · Led Zeppelin

120 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 6:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-80 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
FOOL IN THE RAIN · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 10 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 16 are fills and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-81.

PART A
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesOS7HDA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fool In The Rain?

98 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Fool In The Rain hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Fool In The Rain?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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