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Fool In The Rain · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 14 OF 33
Groove H -- Part H
75 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
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, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 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
68/100

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 |XgXgXggXgXgXXggg|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-89 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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?

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