Four Sticks · Led Zeppelin

176 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 4:40 of playing on crash, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 23 and 26, and 40 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
FOUR STICKS · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 176.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 176
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 2 sections: 172 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-175.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Four Sticks?

104 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Four Sticks hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Four Sticks?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 176.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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