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Fool In The Rain · Led-Zeppelin

EXERCISE 12 OF 32
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
81 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesNHS6BS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fool In The Rain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and silence through bars 41-44, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xgxgxggxgxgxxgxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Fool In The Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 15-83 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-95 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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