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, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
69/100
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

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 6 sections: 75 keep time, 12 are fills and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-81.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesNHS6BS3Fill 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?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 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 23 exercises over 8 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 Fool In The Rain?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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